On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:51 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > WARNING: disabling durable_writes means that writes are only in memory and > will not be committed to disk until the CF's are flushed. You should > *always* use nodetool drain before shutting down a node in this case.
While a rational and informed observer would infer the need for drain from the normally tight relationship of memtables to the contents of the commit log, clean shutdown actually explicitly calls flush when durable_writes is disabled. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2958 =Rob
