[jira] [Comment Edited] (CASSANDRA-6230) Write hints to flat files instead of the system.hints

["Fahd Siddiqui (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Fahd Siddiqui edited comment on CASSANDRA-6230 at 11/23/15 6:58 PM:
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Please entertain this question even though it may seem unnecessary. Is there some way to now know about the _oldest_ hint for a node? In system.hints, currently, this is trivial to know. 


was (Author: fahdsiddiqui):
Please entertain this question even though it may seem unnecessary. Is there some way to now know about the _oldest_ hint for a node? In system.hints this is trivial to know and some of our functionality depend on it. 

> Write hints to flat files instead of the system.hints
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-6230
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6230
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Aleksey Yeschenko
>             Fix For: 3.0 beta 1
>
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> Writing to a file would have less overhead on both hint creation and replay.



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