Author: jbellis Date: Sun May 8 01:44:30 2011 New Revision: 1100672 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1100672&view=rev Log: add note about drain to News
Modified: cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8/NEWS.txt Modified: cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8/NEWS.txt URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8/NEWS.txt?rev=1100672&r1=1100671&r2=1100672&view=diff ============================================================================== --- cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8/NEWS.txt (original) +++ cassandra/branches/cassandra-0.8/NEWS.txt Sun May 8 01:44:30 2011 @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Upgrading - Upgrading from version 0.7.1 or later can be done with a rolling restart, one node at a time. You do not need to bring down the whole cluster. + - Running nodetool drain before shutting down the 0.7 node is + recommended but not required. (Skipping this will result in + replay of entire commitlog, so it will take longer to restart but + is otherwise harmless.) - Avro record classes used in map/reduce and Hadoop streaming code have moved from org.apache.cassandra.avro to org.apache.cassandra.hadoop.avro, applications using these classes will need to be updated accordingly.