I think it's a little more subtle that that https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5242
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 8/02/2013, at 10:21 PM, "Desimpel, Ignace" <ignace.desim...@nuance.com> wrote: > Yes it are new directories. I did some debugging … > The Cassandra code is org.apache.cassandra.db.Directories::migrateFile. > It is detecting that it is a manifest (based on the .json extension). > But then it does not take in account that something like > <MyColumnFamily-old.json> can exist. Then it is using <MyColumnFamily-old> as > a directory name in a call to a function destDir = getOrCreate(ksDir, > dirname, additionalPath), while it should be < MyColumnFamily>. > > So I guess that the cfname computation should be adapted to include the > “-old.json” manifest files. > > Ignace > > From: aaron morton [mailto:aa...@thelastpickle.com] > Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2013 03:09 > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: Directory structure after upgrading 1.0.8 to 1.2.1 > > the -old.json is an artefact of Levelled Compaction. > > You should see a non -old file in the current CF folder. > > I'm not sure what would have created the -old CF dir. Does the timestamp > indicate it was created the time the server first started as a 1.2 node? > > Cheers > > > ----------------- > Aaron Morton > Freelance Cassandra Developer > New Zealand > > @aaronmorton > http://www.thelastpickle.com > > On 7/02/2013, at 10:39 PM, "Desimpel, Ignace" <ignace.desim...@nuance.com> > wrote: > > > After upgrading from 1.0.8 I see that now the directory structure has changed > and has a structure like <keyspace><columnfamily> (part of the 1.1.x > migration). > But I also see that directories appear like <keyspace><columnfamily-old>, and > the content of that ‘old’ directory is only one file <columnfamily-old.json>. > > Questions : > Should this xxx-old.json file be in the other directory? > Should the extra directory <xxx-old> not be created? > Or was that intentionally done and is it allowed to remove these directories > ( manually … )? > > Thanks
