system.hints is not used in Cassandra 3. Can't explain the files though, are you referring to the files timestamp or the Unix timestamp in the file name? Is there a node that's been down for several months?
On Wed., 13 Jun. 2018, 23:41 Nitan Kainth, <nitankai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I observed a strange behavior about stored hints. > > Time stamp of hints file shows several months old. I deleted them and saw > new hints files created with same old date. Why is that? > > Also, I see hints files on disk but if I query system.hints table, it > shows 0 rows. Why system.hints is not populated? > > Version 3.11-1 >
