Hi,
Just had a go at upgrading a node to the latest stable c* 2 release and think I ran into some issues with manifest migration. On initial start up I hit this error as it starts to load the first of my CF. INFO [main] 2013-09-24 22:56:01,018 LegacyLeveledManifest.java (line 89) Migrating manifest for struqrealtime/impressionstorev2 INFO [main] 2013-09-24 22:56:01,019 LegacyLeveledManifest.java (line 119) Snapshotting struqrealtime, impressionstorev2 to pre-sstablemetamigration ERROR [main] 2013-09-24 22:56:01,030 CassandraDaemon.java (line 459) Exception encountered during startup FSWriteError in /disk1/cassandra/data/struqrealtime/impressionstorev2/snapshots/pre-sstablem etamigration/impressionstorev2.json at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createHardLink(FileUtils.java:83) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LegacyLeveledManifest.snapshotWithoutCFS( LegacyLeveledManifest.java:138) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LegacyLeveledManifest.migrateManifests(Le gacyLeveledManifest.java:91) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:246) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:4 42) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:485) Caused by: java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /disk1/cassandra/data/struqrealtime/impressionstorev2/snapshots/pre-sstablem etamigration/impressionstorev2.json -> /disk1/cassandra/data/struqrealtime/impressionstorev2/impressionstorev2.json at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86) at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createLink(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:474 ) at java.nio.file.Files.createLink(Files.java:1037) at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createHardLink(FileUtils.java:79) ... 5 more I had already successful run a test migration on our dev server. Only real difference I can see if the number of data directories defined and the amount of data being held. I've run upgradesstables under 1.2.10. I have always been using vnodes and CQL3. I recently moved to using LZ4 instead of Snappy.. I tried to startup again and it gave me a slightly different error INFO [main] 2013-09-24 22:58:28,218 LegacyLeveledManifest.java (line 89) Migrating manifest for struqrealtime/impressionstorev2 INFO [main] 2013-09-24 22:58:28,218 LegacyLeveledManifest.java (line 119) Snapshotting struqrealtime, impressionstorev2 to pre-sstablemetamigration ERROR [main] 2013-09-24 22:58:28,222 CassandraDaemon.java (line 459) Exception encountered during startup java.lang.RuntimeException: Tried to create duplicate hard link to /disk3/cassandra/data/struqrealtime/impressionstorev2/snapshots/pre-sstablem etamigration/struqrealtime-impressionstorev2-ic-1030-TOC.txt at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.FileUtils.createHardLink(FileUtils.java:71) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LegacyLeveledManifest.snapshotWithoutCFS( LegacyLeveledManifest.java:129) at org.apache.cassandra.db.compaction.LegacyLeveledManifest.migrateManifests(Le gacyLeveledManifest.java:91) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.setup(CassandraDaemon.java:246) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.activate(CassandraDaemon.java:4 42) at org.apache.cassandra.service.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:485) Will have a go recreating this tomorrow. Any insight or guesses at what the issue might be are always welcome. Thanks, Chris