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Abhishek Rai commented on ZOOKEEPER-2574:
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Thanks for the references [~rakeshr]. The learner writes the snapshot in
response to the NEWLEADER message received from the leader. Based on my
understanding, this is because the leader could be ahead of the learner -
meaning that the learner is missing some transactions that the leader has. So
receiving a snapshot and committing it locally is a valid option for the
learner to catch up and join the quorum. However, going forward it will
receive subsequent transactions, which as you mentioned get appended to the
existing txn log file. It seems a log rollover could have been done before
snapshotting in the learner, but perhaps changing behaviors at this point is
not worth it given the need to support old behavior too?
> PurgeTxnLog can inadvertently delete required txn log files
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>
> Key: ZOOKEEPER-2574
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-2574
> Project: ZooKeeper
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: server
> Affects Versions: 3.4.7, 3.4.8, 3.5.0, 3.5.1, 3.5.2
> Environment: Zookeeper 3.4.8, standalone, and 3-server quorum
> Reporter: Abhishek Rai
> Assignee: Abhishek Rai
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 3.4.10, 3.5.3
>
> Attachments: ZOOKEEPER-2574.2.patch, ZOOKEEPER-2574.3.patch,
> ZOOKEEPER-2574.patch
>
>
> As part of the fix for ZOOKEEPER-1797, the call to
> FileTxnSnapLog.getSnapshotLogs() was removed from PurgeTxnLog.java. As a
> result, some old-looking but required txn log files can be deleted, resulting
> in data corruption or loss.
> For example, consider the following:
> 1. Configuration:
> autopurge.snapRetainCount=3
> 2. Following files exist:
> log.100 spans transactions from zxid=100 till zxid=140 (inclusive)
> snapshot.110 - snapshot as of zxid=110
> snapshot.120 - snapshot as of zxid=120
> snapshot.130 - snapshot as of zxid=130
> Above scenario is possible when snapshotting has happened multiple times but
> without accompanying log rollover, which is possible if the server was
> running as a learner.
> 3. PurgeTxnLog retains all snapshots but deletes log.100 because its zxid is
> older than the zxid of the oldest snapshot (110). This results in loss of
> transactions in the range 131-140.
> Before the fix for ZOOKEEPER-1797, this was avoided by the call to
> FileTxnSnapLog.getSnapshotLogs() which finds and retains the newest txn log
> file with starting zxid < oldest retained snapshot's highest zxid.
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