[CASSANDRA-6529] sstableloader shows no progress or errors when pointed at a bad directory

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.5
• Component/s: Legacy/Tools
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Tom Hobbs

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Tom Hobbs

• Created: 26/Dec/13 18:34
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 07/Jan/14 05:52

Description

With sstableloader, the source directory is supposed to be in the format <keyspace_name>/<table_name>/. If you incorrectly just put the sstables in a <keyspace_name>/ directory, the sstableloader process will not show any progress, errors, or other output, it will simply hang.

This was initially reported on the user ML here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg33916.html