Not sure what the intended purpose is, but we've mostly used it as an emergency disk-capacity-increase option. It's not as good as raid because each disk size is counted individually (a compacted sstable can only be on one disk) so compaction size limits aren't expanded as one might expect.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:30 PM, mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought there is an option to give multiple data dirs in cassandra.yaml. > What's the purpose of that? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/RAID-or-no-RAID-tp6522904p6523523.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
