[CASSANDRA-5891] Scrub disk footprint needs to be reduced

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.9
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Lyuben Todorov
• Reporter: Sankalp Kohli

Authors

Lyuben Todorov

Reviewers

David Brosius

• Created: 14/Aug/13 22:42
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 20/Aug/13 21:41

Description

Currently scrub creates a snapshot at the beginning of the scrub. This causes the disk used to be doubled after the scrub.

If the disk utilization is more than 50%, scrub wont work. It would be nice to have an overriding option to disable snapshot. Something like --no-snapshot.