> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2958 Thanks
----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 28/06/2013, at 6:30 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:51 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: >> WARNING: disabling durable_writes means that writes are only in memory and >> will not be committed to disk until the CF's are flushed. You should >> *always* use nodetool drain before shutting down a node in this case. > > While a rational and informed observer would infer the need for drain > from the normally tight relationship of memtables to the contents of > the commit log, clean shutdown actually explicitly calls flush when > durable_writes is disabled. > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2958 > > =Rob
