Next time it happens take a note of the snapshot folder, different processes name the folder differently. It may help track down what created the snapshot.
Cheers Aaron On 31 Mar 2011, at 01:13, Roberto Bentivoglio wrote: > Hi Aaron, > I already deleted the snapshot folder unfortunately. > We upgraded to 0.7.4. > > Thanks, > Roberto > > On 30 March 2011 12:57, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > AFAIK snapshots are taken for drop CF, drop KS and truncate CF also during > compaction if enabled via yaml. Cannot see anything in the code for 0.7 to > snapshot during CF update. > > What was the name of the snapshot folder ? > > btw it's a really good idea to upgrade to 0.7.4 if possible > > Aaron > > On 30 Mar 2011, at 20:55, Roberto Bentivoglio wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I've executed from cassandra-cli on a production server (0.7.0) the > > following instruction: > > > > update column family CFName with gc_grace=0; > > > > I'm really surprise that Cassandra take a snapshots of the data for every > > update that I executed. > > Is this a normal behaviour? > > > > Thanks, > > Roberto Bentivoglio > >
