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Paulo Motta updated CASSANDRA-7720:
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Component/s: (was: Legacy/Tools)
> Add a more consistent snapshot mechanism
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7720
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7720
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Mike Schrag
> Priority: Normal
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> We’ve hit an interesting issue with snapshotting, which makes sense in
> hindsight, but presents an interesting challenge for consistent restores:
> * initiate snapshot
> * snapshotting flushes table A and takes the snapshot
> * insert into table A
> * insert into table B
> * snapshotting flushes table B and takes the snapshot
> * snapshot finishes
> So what happens here is that we end up having a B, but NOT having an A, even
> though B was chronologically inserted after A.
> It makes sense when I think about what snapshot is doing, but I wonder if
> snapshots actually should get a little fancier to behave a little more like
> what I think most people would expect. What I think should happen is
> something along the lines of the following:
> For each node:
> * pass a client timestamp in the snapshot call corresponding to "now"
> * snapshot the tables using the existing procedure
> * walk backwards through the linked snapshot sstables in that snapshot
> * if the earliest update in that sstable is after the client's timestamp,
> delete the sstable in the snapshot
> * if the earliest update in the sstable is before the client's timestamp,
> then look at the last update. Walk backwards through that sstable.
> * if any updates fall after the timestamp, make a copy of that sstable in
> the snapshot folder only up to the point of the timestamp and then delete the
> original sstable in the snapshot (we need to copy because we're likely
> holding a shared hard linked sstable)
> I think this would guarantee that you have a chronologically consistent view
> of your snapshot across all machines and columnfamilies within a given
> snapshot.
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