Thank you for the clarification...very helpful
Kannan
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From: Rob Coli <rc...@digg.com>
To: user@cassandra.apache.org
Sent: Fri, September 10, 2010 12:55:14 PM
Subject: Re: How to drop a keyspace in 0.6.5?
On 9/10/10 10:10 AM, kannan chandrasekaran wrote:
> Thank you for the replies Jonathan... Just to make sure I understand
> this correctly;
0) Stop writing to the ColumnFamily and then 'nodetool flush' all nodes.
> 1) Shutdown cassandra
> 2) Remove the keyspace ( and its corresponding CF ) configurations in
> storage-conf.xml
> 2) Delete the Keyspace directory under the cassandra data directory
> 4) Restart cassandra server
If you omit step 0), there are some versions of cassandra (<0.6.3?) where you
will encounter an infinite loop as the commitlog attempts to apply mutations to
an undefined ColumnFamily. FWIW! :)
=Rob
PS - Yes, the thread refers to 0.6.5, this post is for searchers who may be on
an earlier version of the 0.6 series.
