If you are certain that you don’t need data, your plan is good. Make sure to delete all the files for any given sequence number ie data, index, toc etc
Regards, Nitan Cell: 510 449 9629 > On Jan 21, 2020, at 5:36 AM, manish khandelwal <manishkhandelwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Hi Team > > I am observing some obsolete files in Cassandra 2.0.14 which are already > compacted but not removed from the system after compaction. > As per CASSANDRA-7872 , after GC grace period has passed the sstables are > open for read again and can lead to data resurrection. I am facing disk > crunch (90% full ) as well and need to remove those obsolete files ASAP. > > > To avoid this what should be our strategy? I am thinking on following lines > 1. Stop the Cassandra server. > 2. Remove the obsolete files manually. > 3. Start the Cassandra server. > > Regards > Manish > > > >
