The way it is today the hinted rows stay in the app CF but since they are not large in number or size it should not be an issue.
The reason for this is that deletes does not work yet in cassandra and it needs to be fixed unless all compactions are run immediately after deleting hence deletion of hints themselves works. But this is ofcourse not possible in App CFs. Also the way we clean up the hinted keys from the app CF and other keys which can get accumulated over time due to machine splits etc is by running a Cleanup process which goes through all the files and throws away unnecessary keys . Thanks Prashant On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Jun Rao <[email protected]> wrote: > > In HintedHandoff.runDeliverHints(), after the hints are delivered, the > hinted keys are deleted from the hinted CF only, but not from the > application CF. Does that mean the hinted rows will stay in the application > CF forever? I am probably missing something here. > > Jun > IBM Almaden Research Center > K55/B1, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120-6099 > > [email protected]
