> > Sort of. There's some fine print, such as the 50% number is only if > you're manually forcing major compactions, which is not recommended, > but a bigger thing to know is that 1.0 will introduce "leveled > compaction" [1] inspired by leveldb. The free space requirement will > then be a small number of megabytes. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1608
And in the mean time, plan for more storage as I and others have reported in other threads that repairs have caused disks to fill up (in my case, I think it's because I had multiple repairs running at the same time).
