It will have a performance penalty, so it would be better to spread the compactions over a period of time. But Cassandra will still take care of any reads/writes (within the given timeout).
2012/2/3 myreasoner <[email protected]> > If every node in the cluster is running major compaction, would it be able > to > answer any read request? And is it wise to write anything to a cluster > while it's doing major compaction? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Can-you-query-Cassandra-while-it-s-doing-major-compaction-tp7249985p7249985.html > Sent from the [email protected] mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
