Elias,

On Dec 14, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Elias Levy wrote:

> If you add a node, that node will be empty.  If MR chooses the new node, the 
> choice of R=1 will cause it to think there is no data to process.  As time 
> goes on that node will gain new data or be populated by read-repair, but it 
> will still not have a complete data set until either all previous data has 
> been read, updated, or deleted.

That is not the case. The new node will be populated by its peers in order to 
fill up its newly-owned vnodes with the appropriate data.

> Just to confirm, you are saying that existing KV and Search data will be 
> redistributed within a cluster when you add a new node?  

That is indeed what he was saying, yes.

I hope that this clarification is helpful for you.

Best,

-Justin



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