My understanding is any time from that node. Another node may have a different existing value and tombstone vs. that existing data(most recent timestamp wins). Ie. The data is not needed on that node so compaction should be getting rid of it, but I never confirmed thisŠ.I hope you get confirmation.
Dean On 10/22/12 10:43 AM, "B. Todd Burruss" <bto...@gmail.com> wrote: >if a node, X, has a tombstone marking deleted data, when can node X >remove the data - not the tombstone, but the data? i understand the >tombstone cannot be removed until GCGraceSeconds has passed, but it >seems the data could be compacted away at any time.
