SSTables are immutable. Those won't changed once written to disk. From iPhone
On 2011/05/19, at 9:37, Sameer Farooqui <cassandral...@gmail.com> wrote: > As of 0.8.0, is it possible to take a Cassandra snapshot to a different > volume (like a EBS volume dedicated for backups)? > > About a year ago, Jonathan Ellis said that this won't be implemented b/c > snapshots are basically hard links: > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-commits/201002.mbox/%3c821546961.221891265939548009.javamail.j...@brutus.apache.org%3E > > But I don't fully understand that. If a snapshot is just a hardlink, won't > the snapshot also change as new data is written to the SSTables? > > - Sameer
