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Ryan Svihla commented on CASSANDRA-8494:
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I think there is an overlap between high density desire users and very slow
almost glacial planning. By the time they've requisitioned the hardware, and
gotten the nodes in place, their cluster may very well be far past overloaded.
End of the day, this will help those that don't plan well the most.
I think it could be much better new user experience if we get this right.
> incremental bootstrap
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> 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
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> 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.
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