On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Peter Schuller <peter.schul...@infidyne.com> wrote: > I had failed to consider over-writes as a possible culprit (since > removals were stated not to be done). However thinking about it I > believe the effect of this should be limited to roughly a doubling of > disk space in the absolute worst case of over-writing all data in the > absolute worst possible order (such as writing everything twice in the > same order).
Minor compactions (see http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable) will try to keep the growth in check but it is by no means limited to 2x. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
