> Not sure what the intended purpose is, but we've mostly used it as an > emergency disk-capacity-increase option
Thats what I've used it for. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28 Jun 2011, at 15:55, Dan Kuebrich wrote: > Not sure what the intended purpose is, but we've mostly used it as an > emergency disk-capacity-increase option. It's not as good as raid because > each disk size is counted individually (a compacted sstable can only be on > one disk) so compaction size limits aren't expanded as one might expect. > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought there is an option to give multiple data dirs in cassandra.yaml. > What's the purpose of that? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/RAID-or-no-RAID-tp6522904p6523523.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
