> At what point does compression start ? It starts for new SSTables created after the schema was altered.
> How can I confirm it is working ? Compressed SSTables include a -CompressionInfo.db component on disk. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 8/05/2013, at 6:35 AM, Oleg Dulin <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a column family with really wide rows set to use Snappy like this: > > compression_options = {'sstable_compression' : > 'org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.SnappyCompressor'} > > My understanding is that if a file is compressed I should not be able to use > "strings" command to view its contents. But it seems like I can view the > contents like this: > > strings *-Data.db > > At what point does compression start ? How can I confirm it is working ? > > > -- > Regards, > Oleg Dulin > NYC Java Big Data Engineer > http://www.olegdulin.com/
