On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 1:04 PM, S C <as...@outlook.com> wrote: > I have started repairing a 10 node cluster with one of the table having > > 1TB of data. I notice that the validation compaction actually shows >3 TB > in the "nodetool compactionstats" bytes total. However, I have less than > 1TB data on the machine. If I take into consideration of 3 replicas then > 3TB makes sense. Per my understanding, validation does only care about data > local to the machine running validation compaction. Am I missing some thing > here? Any help is much appreciated. >
Compression is enabled by default; it's showing the uncompressed data size. Your 1TB of data would be 3TB without compression. =Rob
