Re: Riak 1.4.0: *Massive* disk space saving with eLevelDB

2013-07-26 Thread Pedram Nimreezi
A vacuum command would be most appropriate... On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Jordan West wrote: > To clarify a bit further: > > If you started with a fresh 1.4 cluster (or explicitly changed the > app.config setting) you are using a new on-disk format that applies to any > backend used by Ri

Re: Riak 1.4.0: *Massive* disk space saving with eLevelDB

2013-07-26 Thread Jordan West
To clarify a bit further: If you started with a fresh 1.4 cluster (or explicitly changed the app.config setting) you are using a new on-disk format that applies to any backend used by Riak, including LevelDB. There new format is more compact but, like MvM said, the majority of savings here probabl

Re: Riak 1.4.0: *Massive* disk space saving with eLevelDB

2013-07-26 Thread Dave Brady
/ Stockholm / Vienna Subject: Re: Riak 1.4.0: *Massive* disk space saving with eLevelDB Dave, Glad you are happy. The truth is that you gained space via the backup/restore process. The data formats of 1.3.1 and 1.4 are the same. leveldb only removes dead / old key/values during its backg

Re: Riak 1.4.0: *Massive* disk space saving with eLevelDB

2013-07-26 Thread Matthew Von-Maszewski
Dave, Glad you are happy. The truth is that you gained space via the backup/restore process. The data formats of 1.3.1 and 1.4 are the same. leveldb only removes dead / old key/values during its background compaction. It could be days, even weeks in some cases, between when you write fresh