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Stu Hood commented on CASSANDRA-1717:
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You should also consider that checksumming at the column index or column level
will require separate checksums for the column index and row header.
Checksumming at the block level gets you that in one go.
> Cassandra cannot detect corrupt-but-readable column data
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> Key: CASSANDRA-1717
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1717
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
> Fix For: 1.0
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> Attachments: checksums.txt
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> Most corruptions of on-disk data due to bitrot render the column (or row)
> unreadable, so the data can be replaced by read repair or anti-entropy. But
> if the corruption keeps column data readable we do not detect it, and if it
> corrupts to a higher timestamp value can even resist being overwritten by
> newer values.
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