Thanks Tyler, that explains it. Sean
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > The summary files are immutable, but can be replaced periodically. See > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5519 for more details. > > The summary files aren't particularly important, they're primarily an > optimization for startup time. > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Sean Bridges <sean.brid...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I thought an sstable was immutable once written to disk. Before >> upgrading from 1.2.18 to 2.0.10 we took a snapshot of our sstables. Now >> when I compare the files in the snaphot dir and the original files, the >> Summary.db files have a newer modified date, and the file sizes have >> changed. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Sean >> > > > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > DataStax <http://datastax.com/> >