Re: difference between compaction, repair, clean

2011-03-30 Thread Narendra Sharma
Short answers: - compaction - Initiate immediate full compaction. Removes deleted data. - clean - Initiates immediate cleanup i.e. remove the data that is deleted and that doesn't belong to this node. Internally performs full compaction. - repair - Used to make different copies (replicas) of data c

difference between compaction, repair, clean

2011-03-30 Thread Jonathan Colby
I'm a little unclear on the differences between the nodetool operations: - compaction - repair - clean I understand that compaction consolidates the SSTables and physically performs deletes by taking into account the Tombstones. But what does clean and repair do then?