Tested on WINDOWS : On startup of the 2.0.0 version from 1.2.x files I get an error as listed below.
This is due to the code in LeveledManifest:: mutateLevel. The method already has a comment saying that it is scary ... On windows, one cannot use the File::rename if the target file name already exists. Also, even on Linux, I'm not sure if a rename would actually 'overwrite/implicit-delete' the content of the target file. Anyway, adding code (below) before the FileUtils.renameWithConfirm should work in both cases (maybe even rename the fromFile to be able to recover...) File oTo = new File(filename); if ( oTo.exists() ) oTo.delete(); java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to rename .....xxx\Function-ic-10-Statistics.db-tmp to .....xxx\Function-ic-10-Statistics.db at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.renameWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:136) ~[main/:na] at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.renameWithConfirm(FileUtils.java:125) ~[main/:na] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LeveledManifest.mutateLevel(LeveledManifest.java:601) ~[main/:na] at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LegacyLeveledManifest.migrateManifests(LegacyLeveledManifest.java:103) ~[main/:na] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:247) ~[main/:na] at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:443) ~[main/:na] Regards, Ignace Desimpel