Re: idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question

2012-11-01 Thread Ran User
* reads, Memtable flushing, compacting and repairing on the data volume. The only way to be sure is to test both setups. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 31/10/2012, at 1:11 PM, Ran User ranuse...@gmail.com wrote

Re: idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question

2012-10-30 Thread Ran User
*From:* Ran User [mailto:ranuse...@gmail.com] *Sent:* dinsdag 30 oktober 2012 4:33 *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org *Subject:* Re: idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question Have you considered running RAID 10 for the data drives to improve MTBF? On one hand Cassandra

idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question

2012-10-29 Thread Ran User
For a server with 4 drive slots only, I'm thinking: either: - OS (1 drive) - Commit Log (1 drive) - Data (2 drives, software raid 0) vs - OS + Data (3 drives, software raid 0) - Commit Log (1 drive) or something else? also, if I can spare the wasted storage, would RAID 10 for cassandra data

Re: idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question

2012-10-29 Thread Ran User
headaches should one of the drives fail. You can already distribute the individual Cassandra column families on different drives by just setting up symlinks to the individual folders. 2012/10/30 Ran User ranuse...@gmail.com: For a server with 4 drive slots only, I'm thinking: either

Re: idea drive layout - 4 drives + RAID question

2012-10-29 Thread Ran User
raid 0 for data. The raid does give you good performance benefit, and it can be convenient to have the OS on a side drive for configuration ease and better MTBF. -Tupshin On Oct 29, 2012 8:56 PM, Ran User ranuse...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping to achieve approx. 2x IO (write and read

Re: Astyanax InstantiationException when accessing ColumnList

2012-09-12 Thread Ran User
/Netflix/astyanax/issues if you get stuck. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 12/09/2012, at 2:04 PM, Ran User ranuse...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, forgot to mention Cassandra version - 1.1.4 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:54

Re: Astyanax InstantiationException when accessing ColumnList

2012-09-11 Thread Ran User
Oops, forgot to mention Cassandra version - 1.1.4 On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:54 AM, Ran User ranuse...@gmail.com wrote: Stuck for hours on this one, thanks in advance! - Scala 2.9.2 - Astyanax 1.0.6 (also tried 1.0.5) - Using CompositeRowKey, CompositeColumnName - No problem inserting