I think the abandoned sstables resulting from dropping a CF are handled the same as SSTables left over after compaction. They are deleted as part of a full GC.
See the section on Compaction here http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable
Hope that helps
Aaron
On 21 Jan, 2011,at 01:42 PM, buddhasystem <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote:
Greetings,
I just used teh nodetool to force a major compaction on my cluster. It seems
like the cfs currently in service were indeed compacted, while the old test
materials (which I dropped from CLI) were still there as tombstones.
Is that the expected behavior? Hmm...
TIA.
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