Details
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New Feature
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Status: Open
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Normal
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
Operators should be able to specify, via YAML, the amount of usable disk space on a node as a percentage of the total available or as an absolute value. If both are specified, the absolute value should take precedence. This allows operators to reserve space available to the database for background tasks – primarily compaction. When a node reaches its quota, gossip should be disabled to prevent it taking further writes (which would increase the amount of data stored), being involved in reads (which are likely to be more inconsistent over time), or participating in repair (which may increase the amount of space used on the machine). The node re-enables gossip when the amount of data it stores is below the quota.
The proposed option differs from min_free_space_per_drive_in_mb, which reserves some amount of space on each drive that is not usable by the database.