> That is correct. In 0.6, an anticompaction was performed and a temporary
> SSTable was written out to disk, then streamed to the recipient. The way
> this is now done in 0.7 requires no extra disk space on the source node.
Great. So that should at least mean that running out of diskspace
shoul
> Anti-compaction and streaming is done to move data from nodes that
> have it (that are in the replica set). This implies CPU and I/O and
> networking load on the source node, so it does have an impact. See
> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Streaming among others.
>
> (Here's where I'm not sure,
This will be a very selective response, not at all as exhaustive as it
should be to truly cover what you bring up. Sorry, but here goes some
random tidbits.
> On the cassandra user list, I noticed a thread on a user that literally
> wrote his cluster to death. Correct me if I'm wrong, but based o
