yep that works, you need to remove all components of the sstable though, not just -Data.db
and, in 2.0 there is this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5228 /Marcus On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Theo Hultberg <t...@iconara.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I think I remember reading that if you have sstables that you know contain > only data that whose ttl has expired, it's safe to remove them manually by > stopping c*, removing the *-Data.db files and then starting up c* again. is > this correct? > > we have a cluster where everything is written with a ttl, and sometimes c* > needs to compact over a 100 gb of sstables where we know ever has expired, > and we'd rather just manually get rid of those. > > T# >
