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Marcus Eriksson edited comment on CASSANDRA-8707 at 2/6/15 11:21 AM:
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I think the penny has finally dropped for me, the thing I'm missing now is more 
"why?"-comments, for example, why do we need to copy CompressionMetadata in 
CM.Writer#open(..) if finish type is final and not otherwise? In general, more 
"why?"-comments than "what?" would be helpful, at least around the tricky 
parts, I think future readers will appreciate that.

Also, I think we need some high level documentation with concrete examples 
about the life cycle of sstables. I think this part of the code would be much 
simpler to maintain with a description of why and when the different cases 
occur.

So, I'm +1 once we have some documentation (perhaps as a big comment on top in 
SSTableReader?), and a bit of a tweak to the current code comments to focus 
more on why we do certain things.


was (Author: krummas):
I think the penny has finally dropped, the thing I'm missing now is more 
"why?"-comments, for example, why do we need to copy CompressionMetadata in 
CM.Writer#open(..) if finish type is final and not otherwise? In general, more 
"why?"-comments than "what?" would be helpful, at least around the tricky 
parts, I think future readers will appreciate that.

Also, I think we need some high level documentation with concrete examples 
about the life cycle of sstables. I think this part of the code would be much 
simpler to maintain with a description of why and when the different cases 
occur.

So, I'm +1 once we have some documentation (perhaps as a big comment on top in 
SSTableReader?), and a bit of a tweak to the current code comments to focus 
more on why we do certain things.

> Move SegmentedFile, IndexSummary and BloomFilter to utilising RefCounted
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-8707
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8707
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Assignee: Benedict
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.1.3
>
>
> There are still a few bugs with resource management, especially around 
> SSTableReader cleanup, esp. when intermixing with compaction. This migration 
> should help. We can simultaneously "simplify" the logic in SSTableReader to 
> not track the replacement chain, only to take a new reference to each of the 
> underlying resources.



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