Yes, clean-up will reduce the disk space on the existing nodes by re-writing
only the data that the node now owns into new sstables.
Sean R. Durity
DB Solutions
Staff Systems Engineer – Cassandra
From: Lapo Luchini
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2022 4:12 AM
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Subject:
On 2022-12-29 21:54, Durity, Sean R via user wrote:
At some point you will end up with large sstables (like 1 TB) that won’t
compact because there are not 4 similar-sized ones able to be compacted
Yes, that's exactly what's happening.
I'll see maybe just one more compaction, since the biggest