Re: state of incremental repairs in cassandra 3.x

2021-09-16 Thread Alexander DEJANOVSKI
Hi James, I'd recommend to upgrade to 4.0.1 if you intend to use incremental repair. The changes from CASSANDRA-9143 are massive and couldn't be backported to the 3.11 branch. When moving to incremental, and in order to limit anticompaction o

Re: state of incremental repairs in cassandra 3.x

2021-09-16 Thread C. Scott Andreas
Hi James, thanks for reaching out.A large number of fixes have landed for Incremental Repair in the 3.x series, though it's possible some may have been committed to 4.0 without a backport. Incremental repair works well on Cassandra 4.0.1. I'd start here to ensure you're picking up all fixes tha

state of incremental repairs in cassandra 3.x

2021-09-16 Thread James Brown
There's been a lot of back and forth on the wider Internet and in this mailing list about whether incremental repairs are fatally flawed in Cassandra 3.x or whether they're still a good default. What's the current best thinking? The most recent 3.x documentation