On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Jan <cne...@yahoo.com> wrote: > David; > > all the packaged installations use the /var/lib/cassandra directory. > Could you check your yaml config files and see if you are using this default > directory for backups > > May want to change it to a location with more disk space.
We're using the default /var/lib/cassandra as our data directory, mounted as its own LVM volume. I don't see anything in cassandra.yaml about a backup directory. There is an "incremental_backups" option which is set to false. Increasing the available disk space doesn't really seem like a solution. We have only about 450MB of live data on the most heavily-loaded server, and the space taken up by these deleted files is growing by several GB per day. For now we can work around the problem by periodically restarting servers to close the file handles, but that hurts our availability and seems like a hack.
