With multiple data dirs you are still limited by the space free on any one drive. So if you have two data dirs with 40GB free on each, and you have 50GB to be compacted, it won't work, but if you had a raid, you would have 80GB free and could compact...
-----Original Message----- From: mcasandra [mailto:mohitanch...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 7:55 PM To: cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: RAID or no RAID aaron morton wrote: > >> Not sure what the intended purpose is, but we've mostly used it as an >> emergency disk-capacity-increase option > > Thats what I've used it for. > > Cheers > How does compaction work in terms of utilizing multiple data dirs? Also, is there a reference on wiki somewhere that says not to use multiple data dirs? -- View this message in context: http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/RAID-or -no-RAID-tp6522904p6527219.html Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
