Yes. I think at least we can remove the tombstones for each sstable first, and then do the merge.
2011/3/29 Karl Hiramoto <k...@hiramoto.org> > Would it be possible to improve the current compaction disk space issue by > compacting one only a few SSTables at a time then imediately deleting the > old one? Looking at the logs it seems like deletions of old SSTables are > taking longer than necessary. > > -- > Karl >