On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Kevin Burton <bur...@spinn3r.com> wrote:
> How do I watch the progress of nodetool repair. > This is a very longstanding operational problem in Cassandra. Repair barely works and is opaque, yet one is expected to run it once a week in the default configuration. An unreasonably-hostile-in-tone-but-otherwise-accurate description of the status quo before the re-write of streaming in 2.0 : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5396 A proposal to change the default for gc_grace_seconds to 34 days, so that this fragile and heavyweight operation only has to be done once a month : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5850 > granted , this is a lot of data, but it would be nice to at least see some > progress. > Here's the rewrite of streaming, where progress indication improves dramatically over the prior status quo : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5286 And here's two open tickets on making repair less opaque (thx yukim@#cassandra) : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5483 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5839 =Rob