On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Ben Chobot <be...@instructure.com> wrote:
> We're wiping the commit logs because that's what the datastax instructions > say to do. (Also the old Cassandra Ops wiki.) I assume it's so that changes > that no longer apply to the node aren't replayed when it's restarted with > old sstables. > > Of course, my question is about when you have multiple keyspaces. > Presumably some changelogs might still apply and some might not, but AFAICT > there's no way to separate them out. > > It might just be that this kind of snapshot restore (one but not all > keyspaces) just isn't supported in Cassandra 1.1? > I told you what to do already, sorry if it was unclear : " just nodetool drain (although this doesn't actually reliably work in 1.1 era... [1]) before stopping the node. " Honestly not sure why the Datastax instructions tell you to delete the commitlog instead of using nodetool drain. I've added them (docs@ ...) to a bcc: here for their information. =Rob http://twitter.com/rcolidba
