Evan was just doing a ritual CYA and saying "this is new technology" [about a year ago].
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Hector Urroz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > We're starting to prototype Cassandra for use in a production system and > became concerned about data corruption after reading the excellent article: > http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2009/07/06/up-and-running-with-cassandra/ > > where Evan Weaver writes: > > "Cassandra is an alpha product and could, theoretically, lose your data. In > particular, if you change the schema specified in the storage-conf.xml file, > you must follow these instructions carefully, or corruption will occur (this > is going to be fixed). Also, the on-disk storage format is subject to > change, making upgrading a bit difficult." > Is database corruption a well-known or common problem with Cassandra? What > sources of information would you recommend to help devise a strategy to > minimize corruption risk, and to detect and recover when corruption does > occur? > Thanks, > Hector Urroz > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
