Re: Manually deleting sstables

2014-08-21 Thread Tyler Hobbs
You can always set "autosnapshot: false" in cassandra.yaml for testing environments. On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Robert Wille wrote: > >> 2) Are there any other recommended procedures for this? >> > 0) stop writes to columnfamily > 1) TRUNCATE columnfamily; > 2) nodetool clearsnapshot

Re: Manually deleting sstables

2014-08-21 Thread Robert Wille
> > 2) Are there any other recommended procedures for this? 0) stop writes to columnfamily 1) TRUNCATE columnfamily; 2) nodetool clearsnapshot # on the snapshot that results 3) DROP columnfamily; My two cents here is that this process is extremely difficult to automate, making testing that i

Re: Manually deleting sstables

2014-08-19 Thread Robert Coli
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Parag Patel wrote: > After we dropped a table, we noticed that the sstables are still there. > After searching through the forum history, I noticed that this is known > behavior. > Yes, it's providing "protection" in this case, though many people do not expect t

Manually deleting sstables

2014-08-19 Thread Parag Patel
After we dropped a table, we noticed that the sstables are still there. After searching through the forum history, I noticed that this is known behavior. 1) Is there any negative impact of deleting the sstables off disk and then restarting Cassandra? 2) Are there any other recommend