If you're comfortable following comm...@cassandra.apache.org, it should be pretty obvious which changes are going to break things temporarily or require a commitlog drain. Otherwise, we recommend sticking with the stable branch until a beta is released.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Conway <m...@backupify.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to start using trunk for something real, but am concerned about > stability of the data format. That is, will I be able to upgrade a running > system to a newer version of trunk and eventually to the 7.0 release, or are > there any changes planned to the format of the data stored on disk that would > prevent this. I'm ok with having to do a full shutdown to do upgrades, or > even some form of export/import (would prefer to avoid this), but obviously > would need to know when the format has changed so I can do the right thing > (announcements to mailing list?). What is the recommend procedure for > dealing with upgrades? Thanks, > > Matt > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
