When you run drain the node will log someone like "node drained" when it is
done.
The commit log should be empty, any data in the log may be due to changes in
the system tables after the drain. Can you raise a ticket and include the
commit logs left behind and any relevant log messages?
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couple questions about commitlogs and the nodetool drain operator:
* in 0.6, after invoking a drain, the commitlog directory would be empty.
in 0.8, it seems to contain 2 files, a 44 byte .header file and 270 byte
.log file. do these indicate a fully drained commitlog?
* i have a couple node