I set GC_grace to 2 hours, for testing. then I compacted the sstables using nodecmd,
but the resulting sstables contained many Deletion records older than 2 hours "0000000000000d5e3263303666346331000000000000000100000000": [["00000132f8820139303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303030303263303666346332","4e95a659",1318429297125,"d"]], yyang@ip-10-71-86-162:~/src/svn/whisky$ perl -e 'print gmtime(1318429297)."\n" ' Wed Oct 12 14:21:37 2011 -rw-r--r-- 1 yyang yyang 381366163 2011-10-12 16:39 /mnt/cass/lib/cassandra/data/testBudget_items/multi_click_filter-h-511-Data.db