On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Omer van der Horst Jansen <ome...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the meantime, is it safe to manually delete stale files while > Cassandra is running? And how do I determine when a set of files is > stale? > > I'd assume that a given set of files is deletable if there is no > -Data.db file and the -Compacted file has zero length.
Yes, that should work. Also, restarting a node will clean them out. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com