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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 07:30:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: how to delete data
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Currently there is no good way to do this.  We're planning to add
"truncate" support in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-531, let me know if
you want to work on that. :)

-Jonathan

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Ran Tavory <rantav@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the recommended way to delete data?
> For example, I want to wipe out an entire column family data from disk with
> minimal effort.
> I could:
>
> stop all hosts in the cluster
> restart them until they finish playing commit logs
> stop them again
> delete all CF related files in my data directory at every node
> start cluster again
> ... but this is tedious. is there a nicer way?
>