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Jeremiah Jordan updated CASSANDRA-18507:
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Test and Documentation Plan: Unit Tests
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> Partial compaction can resurrect deleted data
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> Key: CASSANDRA-18507
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-18507
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Local/Compaction
> Reporter: Tobias Lindaaker
> Assignee: Tobias Lindaaker
> Priority: Normal
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> If there isn't enough disk space available to compact all existing sstables,
> Cassandra will attempt to perform a partial compaction by removing sstables
> from the set of candidate sstables to be compacted, starting with the largest
> one. It is possible that the sstable removed from the set of sstables to
> compact contains data for which there are tombstones in another (more recent)
> sstable. Since the overlaps between sstables is computed when the
> {{CompactionController}} is created, and the {{CompactionController}} is
> created before the removal of any sstables from the set of sstables to be
> compacted this computed overlap will be outdated when checking which sstables
> are covered by certain tombstones. This leads to the faulty conclusion that
> the tombstones can be pruned during the compaction, causing the data to be
> resurrected.
> The issue is present in Cassandra 4.0 and 4.1. Cassandra 3.11 creates the
> {{CompactionController}} after the set of sstables to compact has been
> reduced, and is thus not affected. {{trunk}} does not appear to support
> partial compactions at all, but instead refuses to compact when the disk is
> full.
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