Hello Jonathan, El 08/06/2010, a las 19:15, Jonathan Ellis escribió:
> Sounds like you had some bad hardware take down your index files. > (Cassandra fsyncs them after writing them and before renaming them to > being live, so if it's missing pieces then it's always been hardware > at fault that I have seen. > > You could try rebuilding your index files from the data files, but > they may be toast, too. > > So: step 1, run bin/sstable2json to make sure your data files are actually > okay. > > Step 2, rebuild your index files from your data files. > > I can never muster up the energy to make an index rebuilder in Java. > So here's one in Python. > [...] I've only got to step 1, sstable2json raises this exception when run with the two problematic data files: Exception in thread "main" java.io.UTFDataFormatException: malformed input around byte 48 at java.io.DataInputStream.readUTF(DataInputStream.java:617) at java.io.RandomAccessFile.readUTF(RandomAccessFile.java:887) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader.loadIndexFile(SSTableReader.java:261) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:125) at org.apache.cassandra.io.SSTableReader.open(SSTableReader.java:114) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:304) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:329) at org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.main(SSTableExport.java:373) I tried to run it with another data file and it outputs its contents without problems, so I suppose that those data files are corrupted, and I should recreate the whole data store... Thanks -- Lucas Di Pentima - Santa Fe, Argentina Jabber: lu...@di-pentima.com.ar MSN: ldipent...@hotmail.com