> > Truncate would have been the tool of choice, however my understanding is truncate fails unless all nodes are up and running which makes it a non-workable choice since we can't determine when failures will occur. >
You can get around this via: - in cassandra.yaml, turning up "truncate_request_timeout_in_ms" to 10 minutes - stopping all compactions: nodetool stop [compaction|validation|cleanup|scrub|index_build] (that's 5 commands total) -- ----------------- Nate McCall Austin, TX @zznate Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant Apache Cassandra Consulting http://www.thelastpickle.com
