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Pavel Yaskevich commented on CASSANDRA-1717:
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This is a good idea but it has few complications:
- buffer length should be store in order to be used by reader
- reads should be aligned by that buffer length so we always read a whole
checksummed chunk of the data which implies that we will potentially always
need to read more data on each request
This seems to be a clear tradeoff between using additional space to store
checksum for index + columns for each row v.s. doing more I/O...
> 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
>
> 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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