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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