Well this is not good at all... During the development of our entire system we generated huge tables (GB or TB) then had to drop them since we changed the definition. This takes up space. There is a constant write on the system so we want to optimize our cluster. Basicaly not expanding untill the real need is there.
Thanks for the answer. On Thursday, May 1, 2014 1:06 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Batranut Bogdan <batra...@yahoo.com> wrote: Is there a way to get cassandra to remove these old and unused tables? Those directories have to exist after DROP because snapshots taken when you drop, and the snapshots are in a subdirectory of those directories. nodetool clearsnapshot Will clear the snapshots; I don't believe there is any way to make cassandra actually clean up the directories. If I were you I might file a trivial feature request in the Cassandra project JIRA. =Rob
