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Donald Smith updated CASSANDRA-8591: ------------------------------------ Description: Often bootstrapping fails due to errors like "unable to find sufficient sources for streaming range". But cassandra is supposed to be fault tolerant, and it's supposed to have tunable consistency. If it can't find some sources, it should allow bootstrapping to continue, under control by parameters (up to 100 failures, for example), and should print out a report about what ranges were missing. For many apps, it's far better to bootstrap what's available then to fail flat. Same with rebuilds. We were doing maintenance on some disks and when we started cassandra back up, some nodes ran out of disk space, due to operator miscaluculation. Thereafter, we've been unable to bootstrap new nodes, due to "unable to find sufficient sources for streaming range." But bootstrapping with partial success would be far better than being unable to bootstrap at all, and cheaper than a repair. Our consistency requirements are low but not zero. was: Often bootstrapping fails due to errors like "unable to find sufficient sources for streaming range". But cassandra is supposed to be fault tolerant, and it's supposed to have tunable consistency. If it can't find some sources, it should allow bootstrapping to continue, under control by parameters (up to 100 failures, for example), and should print out a report about what ranges were missing. For many apps, it's far better to bootstrap what's available then to fail flat. Same with rebuilds. We were doing maintenance on some disks and when we started back up, some nodes ran out of disk space, due to operator miscaluculation. Thereafter, we've been unable to bootstrap new nodes, due to "unable to find sufficient sources for streaming range." But bootstrapping with partial success would be far better than being unable to bootstrap at all, and cheaper than a repair. Our consistency requirements are low but not zero. > Tunable bootstrapping > --------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-8591 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8591 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Donald Smith > Priority: Minor > > Often bootstrapping fails due to errors like "unable to find sufficient > sources for streaming range". But cassandra is supposed to be fault tolerant, > and it's supposed to have tunable consistency. > If it can't find some sources, it should allow bootstrapping to continue, > under control by parameters (up to 100 failures, for example), and should > print out a report about what ranges were missing. For many apps, it's far > better to bootstrap what's available then to fail flat. > Same with rebuilds. > We were doing maintenance on some disks and when we started cassandra back > up, some nodes ran out of disk space, due to operator miscaluculation. > Thereafter, we've been unable to bootstrap new nodes, due to "unable to find > sufficient sources for streaming range." But bootstrapping with partial > success would be far better than being unable to bootstrap at all, and > cheaper than a repair. Our consistency requirements are low but not zero. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)