You won't be able to stream them. You need to run upgradesstables between 
majors. 

Best,
Michael

On Feb 27, 2013, at 11:15 PM, "Michal Michalski" <mich...@opera.com> wrote:

> I'm currently migrating 1.1.0 to 1.2.1 and on our small CI cluster, that 
> I was testing some stuff on, it seems that it's not required to run 
> upgradesstables (this doc doesn't mention about it too: 
> http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.2/install/upgrading but the previous 
> versions did). Of course I'd like to upgrade them sooner or later (in 
> case of another C* upgrade or so), but for me it seems like it's just 
> going to work ("Cassandra is able to read data files created by the 
> previous version, but the inverse is not always true.") and compactions 
> will slowly "convert" old-version SSTables to new ones if I don't do it 
> manually.
> 
> M.
> 
> W dniu 27.02.2013 20:40, Hiller, Dean pisze:
>> Hmmmm, wouldn't I have to run upgradesstables BEFORE I start the 1.2.2
>> node?  But running upgradesstables as I recall required cassandra to be
>> running.....so does it somehow understand the old format when it starts I
>> suspect?
>> 
>> I am thinking I just keep the node out of the ring while I run the
>> upgradesstables, correct? But of course am not sure how to start a 1.2.2
>> node such that it does not join the cluster.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Dean
>> 
>> On 2/27/13 12:31 PM, "Hiller, Dean" <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hmmm, I have this info from Aaron, but what about bringing up version
>>> 1.2.2 with thrift off so I can run upgradesstables before I rejoin the
>>> ring?
>>> 
>>> Quote from Aaron...
>>> In pre 1.2 add these jvm startup params
>>> 
>>> -Dcassandra.join_ring=false
>>> -Dcassandra.start_rpc=false
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dean
>>> 
>>> On 2/27/13 12:00 PM, "Michael Kjellman" <mkjell...@barracuda.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Yes, it's required between majors. Which your upgrade would be.
>>>> 
>>>> On 2/27/13 10:54 AM, "Hiller, Dean" <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> My script to upgrade our first node in QA is thus (basically, snapshot,
>>>>> drain, stop, then switch over then start)Š
>>>>> 
>>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>> 
>>>>> export NODE=$1
>>>>> export VERSION=1.1.4
>>>>> export USER=cassandra
>>>>> 
>>>>> #NOTE: This script requires you have cassandra 1.2.2 in
>>>>> /opt/cassandra-1.2.2 but
>>>>> # feel free to modify if you like
>>>>> 
>>>>> #Move the newest cassandra.yaml to the node
>>>>> scp cassandra.yaml $USER@$NODE:/opt/cassandra/conf
>>>>> 
>>>>> #As cassandra user, snapshot then drain the node
>>>>> # and finally shut down cassandra on that node
>>>>> ssh $USER@$NODE <<\EOF
>>>>>   nodetool snapshot $VERSION
>>>>>   nodetool drain
>>>>>   pkill -f 'java.*cassandra'
>>>>> EOF
>>>>> 
>>>>> #Now, our .bashrc for cassandra has /opt/cassandra/bin in it's path
>>>>> # so we unlink and the link to the new cassandra as root since only root
>>>>> has
>>>>> # access to the opt directory.
>>>>> ssh root@$NODE <<\EOF
>>>>>   rm /opt/cassandra
>>>>>   ln -s /opt/cassandra-1.2.2 /opt/cassandra
>>>>> EOF
>>>>> 
>>>>> #We should start cassandra ourselves probably....so we can watch the
>>>>> cluster as it joins the node
>>>>> #especially for the very first node we do...
>>>>> #Now as cassandra user, start up the cassandra node and then do manual
>>>>> health checks
>>>>> #ssh $USER@$NODE <<\EOF
>>>>> #   cassandra
>>>>> #EOF
>>>> 
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