On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 13:52 -0500, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > you should probably look to see what errno 17 means for the link > system call on your system.
That the file already exists. It seems cassandra is trying to make the same hard link in parallel (under heavy write load) ? I see now i can also reproduce the problem with hadoop and ColumnFamilyOutputFormat. Turning off snapshot_before_compaction seems to be enough to prevent it. ~mck
