We were buffering up the data to write into byte slices to reduce
IO calls but at larger sizes, this causes memory to spike. The TSMWriter
was switched to use a bufio.Writer internally so this byte slice buffering
is unnecessary and costly now.
The block count was an uint16 when incrementing the index location
which was an int32. This caused the value the uint16 value to overflow
before the index location was incremented causing the wrong location
to be read on the next iteration of the loop. This triggers the slice
out of range errors.
Added a test that recreates the panic seen in #5257 and possibly #5202 which
is older code.
Fixes#5257
This changes backup and restore to work for TSM. It breaks it for b1 and bz1, but since those are getting removed it's ok.
The backup runs against any host that is specified and can backup either the metasstore, a database, specific retention policy, or a specific shard. It can also take incremental backups with the `since` flag, which will only backup TSM files that have been created since that timestamp.
The backup is safe to run online. However, for shards that are still hot for writes, they won't be able to create new TSM files while the backup for that single shard runs. If the backup isn't too large and the write throughput isn't too high this shouldn't be a problem since the writes will just go into the WAL cache.
Jason Wilder
Paul Dix