Are you taking snapshots? If the file is referenced in a snapshot it will not delete until it is also not part of any snapshot.
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Maxim Potekhin <potek...@bnl.gov> wrote: > Hello, > > a varied the GC grace a few times over the period of my cluster's > lifetime, but I never went above > 10 days. I did compactions, repairs etc. Now, I see that some files in the > data directories of the nodes > that were there from day one carry timestamps back from July. There are > files containing secondary > indexes. But I have deleted a large portion of the data, one would expect > that these files must have > been rebuilt one or many times. What's happening? > > I run 0.8.6. > > Thanks > > Maxim > >