Upon read from S1 & S6 rows are merged, T3 timestamp wins. T1 will be deleted upon S1 compaction with S6 or manual cleanup. We're running major compactions nightly, a lot of inserts per day with TTL, some with deletes from app - no problems with tombstones.
Best regards/ Pagarbiai Viktor Jevdokimov Senior Developer Email: viktor.jevdoki...@adform.com Phone: +370 5 212 3063 Fax: +370 5 261 0453 J. Jasinskio 16C, LT-01112 Vilnius, Lithuania Disclaimer: The information contained in this message and attachments is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee and may be confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are reminded that the information remains the property of the sender. You must not use, disclose, distribute, copy, print or rely on this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender immediately and irrevocably delete this message and any copies.-----Original Message----- From: Radim Kolar [mailto:h...@filez.com] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2012 13:20 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: tombstones problem with 1.0.8 Scenario 4 T1 write column T2 Flush memtable to S1 T3 del row T4 flush memtable to S5 T5 tomstone S5 expires T6 S5 is compacted but not with S1 Result?