No, that's explained in the link Aaron gave. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > Thanks Jonathan, > > sorry for confusing terms. In any event -- does one have to whack the > obsoleted > data manually on all nodes?? > > Regards > Maxim > > On 1/20/2011 10:51 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: >> >> obsolete sstables are not the same thing as tombstones. >> >> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:11 PM, buddhasystem<potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> What's strange anyhow is that the GC period for these cfs expired some >>> days >>> ago. I thought that a compaction would take care of these tombstones. I >>> used >>> nodetool to "compact". >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Does-Major-Compaction-work-on-dropped-CFs-Doesn-t-seem-so-tp5946031p5946231.html >>> Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at >>> Nabble.com. >>> >> >> > >
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