Kurt, No node is down for months. And yes, I am surprised to look at Unix timestamp on files.
> On Jun 13, 2018, at 6:41 PM, kurt greaves <k...@instaclustr.com> wrote: > > system.hints is not used in Cassandra 3. Can't explain the files though, are > you referring to the files timestamp or the Unix timestamp in the file name? > Is there a node that's been down for several months? > >> On Wed., 13 Jun. 2018, 23:41 Nitan Kainth, <nitankai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I observed a strange behavior about stored hints. >> >> Time stamp of hints file shows several months old. I deleted them and saw >> new hints files created with same old date. Why is that? >> >> Also, I see hints files on disk but if I query system.hints table, it shows >> 0 rows. Why system.hints is not populated? >> >> Version 3.11-1
