Re: Switching to Incremental Repair

2024-02-15 Thread Chris Lohfink
I would recommend adding something to C* to be able to flip the repaired state on all sstables quickly (with default OSS can turn nodes off one at a time and use sstablerepairedset). It's a life saver to be able to revert back to non-IR if migration going south. Same can be used to quickly switch i

Re: Switching to Incremental Repair

2024-02-15 Thread Bowen Song via user
The gc_grace_seconds, which default to 10 days, is the maximal safe interval between repairs. How much data gets written during that period of time? Will your nodes run out of disk space because of the new data written during that time? If so, it sounds like your nodes are dangerously close to

Re: Switching to Incremental Repair

2024-02-15 Thread Kristijonas Zalys
Hi folks, One last question regarding incremental repair. What would be a safe approach to temporarily stop running incremental repair on a cluster (e.g.: during a Cassandra major version upgrade)? My understanding is that if we simply stop running incremental repair, the cluster's nodes can, in