Currently there is no good way to do this. We're planning to add "truncate" support in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-531, let me know if you want to work on that. :)
-Jonathan On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the recommended way to delete data? > For example, I want to wipe out an entire column family data from disk with > minimal effort. > I could: > > stop all hosts in the cluster > restart them until they finish playing commit logs > stop them again > delete all CF related files in my data directory at every node > start cluster again > ... but this is tedious. is there a nicer way? >
