Currently removenode works like below:
- The coordinator node advertises the node to be removed in
REMOVING_TOKEN status in gossip
- Existing nodes learn the node in REMOVING_TOKEN status
- Existing nodes sync data for the range it owns
- Existing nodes send notification to the coordinator
- The coordinator node waits for notification and announce the node in
REMOVED_TOKEN
Current problems:
- Existing nodes do not tell the coordinator if the data sync is ok or failed.
- The coordinator can not abort the removenode operation in case of error
- Failed removenode operation will make the node to be removed in
REMOVING_TOKEN forever.
- The removenode runs in best effort mode which may cause data
consistency issues.
It means if a node that owns the range after the removenode
operation is down during the operation, the removenode node operation
will continue to succeed without requiring that node to perform data
syncing. This can cause data consistency issues.
For example, Five nodes in the cluster, RF = 3, for a range, n1, n2,
n3 is the old replicas, n2 is being removed, after the removenode
operation, the new replicas are n1, n5, n3. If n3 is down during the
removenode operation, only n1 will be used to sync data with the new
owner n5. This will break QUORUM read consistency if n1 happens to
miss some writes.
Improvements in this patch:
- This patch makes the removenode safe by default.
We require all nodes in the cluster to participate in the removenode operation and
sync data if needed. We fail the removenode operation if any of them is down or
fails.
If the user want the removenode operation to succeed even if some of the nodes
are not available, the user has to explicitly pass a list of nodes that can be
skipped for the operation.
$ nodetool removenode --ignore-dead-nodes <list_of_dead_nodes_to_ignore> <host_id>
Example restful api:
$ curl -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:10000/storage_service/remove_node/?host_id=7bd303e9-4c7b-4915-84f6-343d0dbd9a49&ignore_nodes=127.0.0.3,127.0.0.5"
- The coordinator can abort data sync on existing nodes
For example, if one of the nodes fails to sync data. It makes no sense for
other nodes to continue to sync data because the whole operation will
fail anyway.
- The coordinator can decide which nodes to ignore and pass the decision
to other nodes
Previously, there is no way for the coordinator to tell existing nodes
to run in strict mode or best effort mode. Users will have to modify
config file or run a restful api cmd on all the nodes to select strict
or best effort mode. With this patch, the cluster wide configuration is
eliminated.
Fixes#7359Closes#7626
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