[jira] [Resolved] (CASSANDRA-5408) Disabling Hinted Handoffs should stop them from being sent

["Brandon Williams (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5408?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brandon Williams resolved CASSANDRA-5408.
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    Resolution: Duplicate
    
> Disabling Hinted Handoffs should stop them from being sent
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-5408
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5408
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.11
>            Reporter: Matt Kapilevich
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> Right now, if hinted_handoff_enabled is set to false, it stops new Hinted Handoffs from being written, but the existing ones are still being sent. I believe this is incorrect.
> On our cluster, we have disabled Hinted Handoffs, and a week later they are still being sent to other nodes, and are still being compacted. This clearly is not the desired behavior. I cannot think of a scenario when one would want to keep receiving Hinted Handoffs after explicitly turning them off. By turning them off, you've already stated that some data loss and inconsistency is acceptable.
> A more aggressive strategy would be to remove from disk all the HintsColumnFamily* files on startup, if Hinted Handoffs were turned off. This would prevent them from being sent, and the existing ones from still being compacted.

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