The existence of sstable X will give an impact to the system or cluster? when the compaction threshold is reach, the sstable x and sstable y will be compacted. it's more like the system responsibility than human intervention.
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:09 PM, B. Todd Burruss <bto...@gmail.com> wrote: > if i stop a node and remove an SSTABLE, let's call it X, is that safe? > > ok, more info. i know that the data in SSTABLE X has been tombstoned > but the tomstones are in SSTABLE Y. i want to simply delete X and get > rid of the data. > > how do i know this .. i did a major compaction a while back and the > SSTABLE is so large it has not yet been compacted. we "delete" data > daily and only keep 7 days of data. the SSTABLE is almost 30 days > old. > > whattayathink? >
