Finally I found the time to start this work... It's half baked, but I listed all the missing parts so I'll continue the work if the patch is good so far. No need to apply the patch, just have look and lmk if I'm at the right direction https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12443055/CASSANDRA-531.patch
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12443055/CASSANDRA-531.patch> Thanks On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Commented on the Jira issue. > > Curious how badly out of date that patch is now. :) > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm willing to give it a try. > > Where do I start, except for applying the patch in the bug? > > > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Currently there is no good way to do this. We're planning to add > >> "truncate" support in > >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-531, let me know if > >> you want to work on that. :) > >> > >> -Jonathan > >> > >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Ran Tavory <ran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > What's the recommended way to delete data? > >> > For example, I want to wipe out an entire column family data from disk > >> > with > >> > minimal effort. > >> > I could: > >> > > >> > stop all hosts in the cluster > >> > restart them until they finish playing commit logs > >> > stop them again > >> > delete all CF related files in my data directory at every node > >> > start cluster again > >> > ... but this is tedious. is there a nicer way? > >> > > > > > >