It's normal for the sstables to remain temporarily. See discussion of "compaction marker" at http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/MemtableSSTable.
It's also normal for a snapshot to be taken before drop commands. 2011/1/4 陶敏 <taomin...@taobao.com> > Hello! > When I use cassandra 0.7 rc4 delete column family, the data file still > exists. But also appeared in the snapshot data backup, this is a bug or my > version > of the parameters wrong, please help me. Thank you. > > Sincerely, > > Salute > > > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus > signature database 5691 (20101210) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > ------------------------------ > > This email (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally > privileged. If you received this email in error, please delete it > immediately and do not copy it or use it for any purpose or disclose its > contents to any other person. Thank you. > > > 本电邮(包括任何附件)可能含有机密资料并受法律保护。如您不是正确的收件人，请您立即删除本邮件。请不要将本电邮进行复制并用作任何其他用途、或透露本邮件之内容。谢谢。 > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
