Re: 2019 manual deletion of sstables

2019-05-07 Thread Carl Mueller
(repair would be done after all the nodes with obviously deletable sstables were deleted) (we may then do a purge program anyway) (this would seem to get rid of 60-90% of the purgable data without incurring a big round of tombstones and compaction) On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:05 PM Carl Mueller

2019 manual deletion of sstables

2019-05-07 Thread Carl Mueller
Last my googling had some people doing this back in 2.0.x days, and that you could do it if you brought a node down, removed the desired sstable #'s artifacts (Data/Index/etc), and then started up. Probably also with a clearing of the saved caches. A decent-ish amount of data (256G) in a 2.1