Note that drain stops gossip and thrift anyway, so they are redundant.
On 25 March 2014 18:30, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Batranut Bogdan <batra...@yahoo.com>wrote: > >> I am running 2.0.6 and I use /etc/init.d/cassandra start / stop . Also >> before stopping I do : >> nodetool disablegossip >> nodetool disablethrift >> nodetool drain >> after that /etc/init.d/cassandra stop >> > > This seems reasonable/best practice. Do you verify the drain has completed > before stopping? > > If I were you, I'd be looking for files with the name of the missing file > in logs previous to the restart. It is pretty unusual for SSTables or their > components to go missing. > > =Rob > >