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Brandon Williams resolved CASSANDRA-5408.
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Resolution: Duplicate
> Disabling Hinted Handoffs should stop them from being sent
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> Key: CASSANDRA-5408
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5408
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.0.11
> Reporter: Matt Kapilevich
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> Right now, if hinted_handoff_enabled is set to false, it stops new Hinted
> Handoffs from being written, but the existing ones are still being sent. I
> believe this is incorrect.
> On our cluster, we have disabled Hinted Handoffs, and a week later they are
> still being sent to other nodes, and are still being compacted. This clearly
> is not the desired behavior. I cannot think of a scenario when one would want
> to keep receiving Hinted Handoffs after explicitly turning them off. By
> turning them off, you've already stated that some data loss and inconsistency
> is acceptable.
> A more aggressive strategy would be to remove from disk all the
> HintsColumnFamily* files on startup, if Hinted Handoffs were turned off. This
> would prevent them from being sent, and the existing ones from still being
> compacted.
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