Another question on a same note would be what would be the fastest way to do repairs of size 10TB cluster ? Full repairs are taking days. So among repair parallel or repair sub range which is faster in the case of say adding a new node to the cluster?
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 19, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Sean Bridges <sean.brid...@globalrelay.net> > wrote: > > Hey, > > We are upgrading from cassandra 2.1 to cassandra 2.2. > > With cassandra 2.1 we would periodically repair all nodes, using the -pr > flag. > > With cassandra 2.2, the same repair takes a very long time, as cassandra does > an anti compaction after the repair. This anti compaction causes most (all?) > the sstables to be rewritten. Is there a way to do full repairs without > continually anti compacting? If we do a full repair on each node with the > -pr flag, will subsequent full repairs also force anti compacting most (all?) > sstables? > > Thanks, > > Sean