[CASSANDRA-11830] "nodetool flush" not flushing system keyspace

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: Tool/nodetool

Environment

Ubuntu 14.04, Oracle Java 8, Cassandra 2.2.6

• Severity: Normal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dominik Keil
• Created: 18/May/16 13:06
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:30
• Resolved: 05/Apr/17 13:38

Description

I'm regularly splitting off maintenance systems from our QA cluster by adding a new node to a new "datacenter", joining it, then stopping and removing it (adapting the schema before and after accordingly).

In order to not mix up the systems I rename the cluster in the newly created maintenance system by updating cluster_name in system.local

In the past, when running "nodetool flush" then restarting Cassandra, this worked as expected.

However, this time it did not. After restarting Cassandra the old cluster name was in place every time. However, explicitly flushing the system keyspace using "nodetool flush system" did work as expected.

Is this a bug or did the default behaviour of "nodetool flush" change at some point?

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-13410 nodetool upgradesstables/scrub/compact ignores system tables