On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Igor Katkov <[email protected]> wrote: > Does cassandra distributes keys evenly among DataFileDirectories?
No, but it should distribute sstables evenly (which, on average, should be distributing keys evenly, but there will be large variance). > Questions: > 1. Is it by design? Each time a sstable is created, either by flush or compaction, it should pick the "next" directory to use. > 2. Is there a way to control key distribution, for the cases when > hard-drives are of different capacity? No. (That wouldn't be hard to add, but nobody's needed it.) -Jonathan
