http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Durability
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Mark Greene <green...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I'm testing out failover for 0.6.0-RC1 and seeing varied behavior in > Cassandra's ability to replay the commit log after a forced failure. > My test is this: > 1) Run ./cassandra -f > 2) Insert a value through the CLI and immediately force a shutdown of > cassandra after I see the "Value inserted" confirmation from the CLI. > If I shutdown cassandra quickly, within a second or two of seeing "Value > Inserted" the data seems to be lost after starting cassandra back up. I did > a nodetool repair and flush as well just in case that may have had any > affect. > Conversely, if I waited about 5 seconds before shutting down cassandra, then > started it again, I was able to retrieve the data from the CLI. > > Any ideas? > Thanks in advance, > Mark
