Thanks. What happens when my compaction fails for space reasons ? Is no compaction possible till I add more space ? I would assume writes are not impacted though the latency of reads would increase, right ?
Also though writes are not seek-intensive, compactions are seek-intensive, no ? On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Tyler Hobbs <ty...@datastax.com> wrote: > Ok, we are both correct here: > > Generally, a minor compaction takes less space than a major, but > occasionally it does not. > > -- > Tyler Hobbs > Software Engineer, DataStax > Maintainer of the pycassa Cassandra Python client library > >
