I never heard from anyone about this. I think it is important for bringing nodes out of service during upgrades so no data loss occurs. Also when introducing a new node you need to know when it is fully populated.
Tux! Brian Burruss <bburr...@real.com> wrote: How can i tell that a node is completely up and taking reads and writes? - at startup? - after new bootstrap? - after a node has been unavailable for some time and rejoins the cluster? i see the "INFO [main] [CassandraDaemon.java:141] Cassandra starting up..." message in the log, but it seems to have happened way too fast after i simulated a crash. using tpstats i don't see any ROW-READ-STAGE completed, but lots of ROW-MUTATION-STAGE completed which seems to be correct for a node that is still sync'ing with the cluster after being unavailable. .. but how do i know ;) thx!
