Re: Dropping & Creating Column Families Never Returns

2011-02-16 Thread Jonathan Ellis
Dropping a CF requires the compaction lock, so if a compaction is in progress it needs to wait for it to finish. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:19 PM, William R Speirs wrote: > What would/could take so long for the nodes to agree? It's a small cluster > (7 nodes) all on local LAN and not being used by

Re: Dropping & Creating Column Families Never Returns

2011-02-15 Thread William R Speirs
What would/could take so long for the nodes to agree? It's a small cluster (7 nodes) all on local LAN and not being used by anything else. I think a delete & refresh might be in order... Thanks! Bill- On 02/15/2011 09:13 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: "command never returns" means "it's waiting f

Re: Dropping & Creating Column Families Never Returns

2011-02-15 Thread Jonathan Ellis
"command never returns" means "it's waiting for the nodes to agree on the new schema version." Bad Mojo will ensue if you issue more schema updates anyway. On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Bill Speirs wrote: > Has anyone ever tried to drop a column family and/or create one and > have the command

Dropping & Creating Column Families Never Returns

2011-02-15 Thread Bill Speirs
Has anyone ever tried to drop a column family and/or create one and have the command not return from the cli? I'm using 0.7.1 and I tried to drop a column family and the command never returned. However, on another node it showed it was gone. I Ctrl-C out of the command, then issued a create for a c