Kirk True created CASSANDRA-4847:
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Summary: Bad disk causes death of node despite disk_failure_policy
Key: CASSANDRA-4847
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4847
Project: Cassandra
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Core
Affects Versions: 1.2.0 beta 1
Reporter: Kirk True
Assignee: Kirk True
Steps:
# Create a bad disk via device mapper
# Specify good disk and bad disk is data directory
# Set {{disk_failure_policy}} to {{best_effort}} in cassandra.yaml
# Start node
Expected:
Attempts to create system directories to fail (as expected) on bad disk, and
have it added to blacklisted directories.
Actual:
Node start up aborts due to uncaught error:
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FSWriteError in /mnt/bad_disk/system_traces/sessions
at
org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createDirectory(FileUtils.java:258)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Directories.<init>(Directories.java:104)
at org.apache.cassandra.db.Directories.create(Directories.java:90)
at
org.apache.cassandra.db.ColumnFamilyStore.scrubDataDirectories(ColumnFamilyStore.java:404)
at
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:227)
at
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:393)
at
org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:436)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to mkdirs
/mnt/bad_disk/system_traces/sessions
... 7 more
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