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Todd Lipcon commented on CASSANDRA-1717:
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BTW, we also scan all blocks verifying checksums in a background process,
continuously, to catch bit-rot even for data that isn't getting read.
> 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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