In that case you wouldn't actually lose any data, since the data
directories would be there the whole time.
The force-replace command will always give that warning though.

Thanks,
Alex


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Elias Levy <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Alexander Moore <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> It's referring to the vnode replicas on the node you are replacing.
>>  Doing a force-replace reassigns all that nodes partitions without handing
>> them off, so the replicas on that node are "lost".  However, since riak
>> replicates to 'N' physical nodes, there should be other replicas of your
>> data.
>> It will take a repair to replicate the data to the new node though.
>>
>
> Alex,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  But I am merely doing a force-replace to rename a
> node, meaning that all that node's data is still on disk, I should expect
> no data loss on the node.  Is that correct?
>
> Elias Levy
>
>
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