Re: Erase old sstables to make room for new sstables

2014-05-29 Thread Robert Coli
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Redmumba redmu...@gmail.com wrote: Is this possible to do safely? The data in the oldest sstable is always guaranteed to be the oldest data, so that is not my concern--my main concern is whether or not we can even do this, and also how we can notify

Erase old sstables to make room for new sstables

2014-05-16 Thread Redmumba
In the system we're using, we have a large fleet of servers constantly appending time-based data to our database--it's largely writes, very few reads (it's auditing data). However, our cluster max space is around 80TB, and we'd like to maximize how much data we can retain. One option is to