[tiering][lake] Race: duplicate commits possible if heartbeat times out but job still commits (after missing‑snapshot check)
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Description
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### Fluss version
0.8.0 (latest release)
### Please describe the bug 🐞
Summary
Fluss tiering jobs perform a “missing snapshot” check before committing to the lake (to avoid duplicates when Fluss missed a lake snapshot). However, if the heartbeat channel between the Flink tiering job and the Coordinator is unstable, the Coordinator can time out the job and reassign the same table to a new job. If both jobs pass the missing‑snapshot check and then commit concurrently, duplicate lake snapshots/data can be produced (especially for append‑only / non‑PK tables), because commit is not fenced by tieringEpoch.
Environment
Fluss version: 0.10-SNAPSHOT
Lake storage: Iceberg/Paimon/Lance
Flink tiering service: fluss-flink-tiering
Network: heartbeat path flaky/partitioned; lake storage reachable
Expected
Once a table round is assigned, only one tiering job should be able to commit its lake snapshot. If a job is timed out and another job takes over, stale commits should be rejected.
Actual
Two tiering jobs can both commit a snapshot for the same round if they both pass the “missing snapshot” check before either commit is visible.
Why this happens (race window)
Job A is assigned table T (epoch=1), starts processing.
Heartbeat to Coordinator is lost (network issue).
Coordinator times out Job A and reassigns table T to Job B (epoch=2).
Both Job A and Job B perform the missing snapshot check:
Each sees “no lake snapshot missing from Fluss” (because neither has committed yet).
Both proceed to commit to lake → duplicate snapshots/data possible.
```mermaid
sequenceDiagram
participant C as Fluss Coordinator
participant A as Tiering Job A
participant B as Tiering Job B
participant L as Lake
C->>A: assign T, epoch=1
A-->>C: heartbeat ok
Note over A,C: heartbeat link lost
C->>C: timeout (2 min)
C->>B: assign T, epoch=2
A->>L: missing-snapshot check (no missing)
B->>L: missing-snapshot check (no missing)
A->>L: commit snapshot
B->>L: commit snapshot
Note over L: duplicate snapshots/data possible
```
Impact
Duplicate lake data/snapshots under heartbeat‑partition scenarios.
Exactly‑once semantics can be violated for non‑PK/append‑only tables.
### Solution
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### Are you willing to submit a PR?
- [ ] I'm willing to submit a PR!
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Research direction
Start by tracing the Coordinator's tiering assignment and timeout flow, then follow the Flink tiering job's missing-snapshot check through the lake commit path. Review how tieringEpoch is carried between these points. Done means a timed-out job cannot commit concurrently with its replacement, with a regression test covering the heartbeat-loss race.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100