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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-5902: --------------------------------------------- People still wreck themselves with hints as it is though, getting into a situation where it delivers to all the nodes would be rough, and users always find a way. A simple -D to disable it won't hurt anything :) > Dealing with hints after a topology change > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-5902 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5902 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Jonathan Ellis > Assignee: Branimir Lambov > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 2.1.1 > > > Hints are stored and delivered by destination node id. This allows them to > survive IP changes in the target, while making "scan all the hints for a > given destination" an efficient operation. However, we do not detect and > handle new node assuming responsibility for the hinted row via bootstrap > before it can be delivered. > I think we have to take a performance hit in this case -- we need to deliver > such a hint to *all* replicas, since we don't know which is the "new" one. > This happens infrequently enough, however -- requiring first the target node > to be down to create the hint, then the hint owner to be down long enough for > the target to both recover and stream to a new node -- that this should be > okay. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)