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  1. WiredTiger
  2. WT-2798

Crash vulnerability with nojournal after create during checkpoint

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • Blocker - P1
    • Resolution: Done
    • 3.2.8
    • WT2.9.0, 3.2.9, 3.3.11
    • None

    Description

      WiredTiger was changed in WT-2346 and WT-2426 to allow new tables to be created while a checkpoint is in progress. When logging (aka journal) is enabled, a table create simply flushes its metadata update to the log, making it durable even if there is a crash before the checkpoint completes.

      When logging is disabled, the create operation will sync the metadata to disk. It appears that this can cause some / all of the checkpoint's metadata changes durable before the checkpoint has completed, leading to a window where the on-disk data is not consistent in the event of a crash.

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              michael.cahill@mongodb.com Michael Cahill (Inactive)
              michael.cahill@mongodb.com Michael Cahill (Inactive)
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