> On Jun 18, 2019, at 12:53 AM, Oleksandr Shulgin > <oleksandr.shul...@zalando.de> wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:08 AM Jeff Jirsa <jji...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yes - the incomplete sstable will be deleted during startup (in 3.0 and >> newer there’s a transaction log of each compaction in progress - that gets >> cleaned during the startup process) > > Wait, does that mean that in pre-3.0 versions one can get incomplete SSTables > laying around and not cleaned up automatically?..
Pre 3.0 they’re named -tmp and cleaned up using a combination of sstable ancestor metadata and the compactions in progress internal table
