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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-8494: ------------------------------------------- Why is it a big deal if bootstrap takes a day or two given reasonable capacity planning? > incremental bootstrap > --------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8494 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8494 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Core > Reporter: Jon Haddad > Priority: Minor > > Current bootstrapping involves (to my knowledge) picking tokens and streaming > data before the node is available for requests. This can be problematic with > "fat nodes", since it may require 20TB of data to be streamed over before the > machine can be useful. This can result in a massive window of time before > the machine can do anything useful. > As a potential approach to mitigate the huge window of time before a node is > available, I suggest modifying the bootstrap process to only acquire a single > initial token before being marked UP. This would likely be a configuration > parameter "incremental_bootstrap" or something similar. > After the node is bootstrapped with this one token, it could go into UP > state, and could then acquire additional tokens (one or a handful at a time), > which would be streamed over while the node is active and serving requests. > The benefit here is that with the default 256 tokens a node could become an > active part of the cluster with less than 1% of it's final data streamed over. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)