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Robert Stupp commented on CASSANDRA-10998:
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Note: my evaluation is probably wrong - need to investigate where the
{{FileNotFoundException}}'s really thrown.
> Snapshots can fail during compactions
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> Key: CASSANDRA-10998
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10998
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Robert Stupp
> Priority: Minor
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> In an unlucky, unlikely and rare situation, a snapshot can fail when sstables
> are removed (due to compaction) while the snapshots being taken.
> So - for example:
> # Compaction starts (compact sstable 1, 2, 3 to 4)
> # Snapshot operation starts with sstables 1, 2, 3
> # Compaction removes sstables 1, 2, 3
> # Snapshot tries to hard link to sstables 1, 2, 3 - failure
> I think it's a very rare but still possible race condition manifesting in
> {{SSTableReader#createLinks}}, which has been mitigated by CASSANDRA-7066 for
> 3.0 (introduced a {{File.exists}} before the actual creation of the hard
> link).
> The problem without CASSANDRA-7066 is, that the snapshot just fails. The
> problem with the if-clause is that the snapshot is inconsistent as it may not
> contain all sstable components or even not all sstables without a failure.
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