Re: Issue with nodetool clearsnapshot

2012-03-06 Thread B R
Thanks a lot, Aaron. Our cluster is much stable now. We'll look at upgrading to 1.x in the coming weeks. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:33 PM, aaron morton wrote: > 1)Since you mentioned hard links, I would like to add that our data > directory itself is a sym-link. Could that be causing an issue ? > >

Re: Issue with nodetool clearsnapshot

2012-03-06 Thread aaron morton
> 1)Since you mentioned hard links, I would like to add that our data directory > itself is a sym-link. Could that be causing an issue ? Seems unlikely. > I restarted the node and it went about deleting the files and the disk space > has been released. Can this be done using nodetool, and witho

Re: Issue with nodetool clearsnapshot

2012-03-05 Thread B R
Hi Aaron, 1)Since you mentioned hard links, I would like to add that our data directory itself is a sym-link. Could that be causing an issue ? 2)Yes, there are 0 byte files of the same numbers in Keyspace1 directory 0 Mar 4 01:33 Standard1-g-7317-Compacted 0 Mar 3 22:58 Standard1-g-7968-Compact

Re: Issue with nodetool clearsnapshot

2012-03-05 Thread aaron morton
> It seems that instead of removing the snapshot, clearsnapshot moved the data > files from the snapshot directory to the parent directory and the size of the > data for that keyspace has doubled. That is not possible, there is only code there to delete a files in the snapshot. Note that in th

Issue with nodetool clearsnapshot

2012-03-05 Thread B R
Version 0.8.9 We run a 2 node cluster with RF=2. We ran a scrub and after that ran the clearsnapshot to remove the backup snapshot created by scrub. It seems that instead of removing the snapshot, clearsnapshot moved the data files from the snapshot directory to the parent directory and the size o