Re: Is nodetool upgradesstables a necessary step for upgrading from 0.8 to 1.0.

2012-05-16 Thread Boris Yen
Hi Aaron, Thanks for the information. :) Boris On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:57 PM, aaron morton wrote: > if I do not upgrade the sstables what is going to happen? > > Things will break. > Things you would normally like to work like repair. > > The new version nodes can read old data. But when they

Re: Is nodetool upgradesstables a necessary step for upgrading from 0.8 to 1.0.

2012-05-16 Thread aaron morton
> if I do not upgrade the sstables what is going to happen? Things will break. Things you would normally like to work like repair. The new version nodes can read old data. But when they stream old data files between themselves (during repair) they have to be able to write the bloom filter, ind

Is nodetool upgradesstables a necessary step for upgrading from 0.8 to 1.0.

2012-05-15 Thread Boris Yen
Hi, Our cluster is currently running on 0.8.10, we plan on upgrading it to 1.0.x. We read the document from the datastax website, the final step is to use nodetool upgradesstables. Since this command might take time to finish, I wonder if this step could be skip? if I do not upgrade the sstables w