Thanks, Erick! I thought that the snapshot size was not counted in the load.
Il giorno lun 3 feb 2020 alle ore 23:24 Erick Ramirez <flightc...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Why the df -h and du -sh shows a big discrepancy? nodetool load is it >> computed with df -h? >> > > In Linux terms, df reports the filesystem disk usage while du is an > *estimate* of the file space usage. What that means is that the operating > system uses different accounting between the two utilities. If you're > looking for a more detailed explanation, just do a search for "df vs du". > > With nodetool load, do you have any snapshots still on disk? This usually > accounts for the discrepancy. Snapshots are hard links to the same inodes > as the original SSTables -- put simply, they're "pointers" to the original > files so they don't occupy the same amount of space. > > If you think there's a real issue, one way to troubleshoot is to do a du > on the table subdirectory then compare it to the size reported by nodetool > tablestats <keyspace.table>. Cheers! >
