On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Jacob Rhoden <jacob.rho...@me.com> wrote:
> Is it correct to assume that if you do a “nodetool drain” on a node and > then shutdown a node, you can safely remove all commit logs on that node as > long as all nodes are up? > Assuming you are in a version where nodetool drain actually works, yes. Most nodetool drain failures actually result in over-replay, not under-flushing, so probably you are even ok in those versions. > I have some VPS’s with low amounts of disk space that could do with it > being recovered, I also assume this means startup time for that node will > be drastically faster. > Yes, though you're trading shutdown time for startup time. > I have also experienced in the past, cases where if my tables had been > altered, a restart would fail due to commit logs not being able to be > replayed. I assume draining and removing the commit logs would be a good > thing to do if you are worried about that bug occurring again (I don’t know > if that bug was fixed or not). > Yes. =Rob http://twitter.com/rcolidba
