Re: Really old files in the data directory

2011-12-09 Thread Edward Capriolo
Aha. I just tested that. Good point. It just seems that way because if I do not clear my snapshots in production I run into disk space issues rather quickly. That is what happens when you assume. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Brandon Williams wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Edward Cap

Re: Really old files in the data directory

2011-12-09 Thread Brandon Williams
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote: > Are you taking snapshots? If the file is referenced in a snapshot it will > not delete until it is also not part of any snapshot. That isn't true. The file will be removed from the data dir, but still exist in the snapshot dir. -Brandon

Re: Really old files in the data directory

2011-12-09 Thread Edward Capriolo
Are you taking snapshots? If the file is referenced in a snapshot it will not delete until it is also not part of any snapshot. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Maxim Potekhin wrote: > Hello, > > a varied the GC grace a few times over the period of my cluster's > lifetime, but I never went above

Really old files in the data directory

2011-12-09 Thread Maxim Potekhin
Hello, a varied the GC grace a few times over the period of my cluster's lifetime, but I never went above 10 days. I did compactions, repairs etc. Now, I see that some files in the data directories of the nodes that were there from day one carry timestamps back from July. There are files cont