We've been running into the reused key cache issue (CASSANDRA-5202) with dropping and recreating the same table in Cassandra 1.2.18 so we've been testing with key caches disabled which does not seem to solve the issue. In the latest logs it seems that old SSTables metadata gets read after the tables have been deleted by the previous drop, eventually causing an exception and the Thrift interface shut down.
At this point is it a known issue that one CANNOT reuse a table name prior to Cassandra 2.1 ?
