Re: Node-tool drain on Cassandra 1.0

2012-09-12 Thread Rob Coli
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Robin Verlangen wrote: > Deleting the commitlog files is harmless. It's just a tool that tries to > keep Cassandra more in-sync with the other nodes. A standard repair will fix > all problems that a commitlog replay might do too. This is not really true.. imagine

Re: Node-tool drain on Cassandra 1.0

2012-09-09 Thread Robin Verlangen
Deleting the commitlog files is harmless. It's just a tool that tries to keep Cassandra more in-sync with the other nodes. A standard repair will fix all problems that a commitlog replay might do too. Best regards, Robin Verlangen *Software engineer* * * W http://www.robinverlangen.nl E ro...@us2

Re: Node-tool drain on Cassandra 1.0

2012-09-08 Thread Rene Kochen
OK, thanks! I will vote for that ticket. On a production system, I have an extremely big table. I want to physically delete it. It it safe to just delete the commit log files after a drain? 1) Drain node 2) Stop Cassandra 3) Delete commit log files 4) Delete all files related to the big table 5)

Re: Node-tool drain on Cassandra 1.0

2012-09-07 Thread Rob Coli
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Rene Kochen wrote: > If I use node-tool drain, it does stop accepting writes and flushes the > tables. However, is it normal that the commit log files are not deleted and > that it gets replayed? It's not expected by design, but it does seem to be normal in cassand

Node-tool drain on Cassandra 1.0

2012-09-07 Thread Rene Kochen
Hi All, I have a question about node-tool drain on a single Cassandra 1.0.11 node: If I use node-tool drain, it does stop accepting writes and flushes the tables. However, is it normal that the commit log files are not deleted and that it gets replayed? Because if I do the following: 1) Write s