Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3

2025-03-13 Thread William Crowell via user
Hi, Is this mailing list still active? Thanks. From: William Crowell via user Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.org Cc: William Crowell Subject: Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3 I also forgot to include we do compaction

Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3

2025-03-13 Thread Luciano Greiner
Haven't you forgot to clean some snapshots ? Luciano Greiner On Thu, Mar 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM William Crowell via user < user@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Is this mailing list still active? > > > > Thanks. > > > > *From: *William Crowell via user > *Date: *Wednesday, March 12, 2

Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3

2025-03-13 Thread William Crowell via user
Luciano, That is very possible. Any reasons why the increased disk space from version 3 to 4? Did anything in particular change that would affect disk space? Thank you for your reply, William Crowell From: Luciano Greiner Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM To: user@cassandra.apache.

Re: Increased Disk Usage After Upgrading From Cassandra 3.x.x to 4.1.3

2025-03-13 Thread Luciano Greiner
As much as sstable files are immutable, there are operations that can delete them, such as compactions (merges) and upgrades (upgradesstables - you possibly ran this in your upgrade). Even though snapshots are hardlinks, when the original sstable file get deleted, it will actually behave like a co