Re: Node Recovery Questions

2018-08-08 Thread Martin Sumner
Based on a quick read of the code, compaction in bitcask is performed only on "readable" files, and the current active file for writing is excluded from that list. With default settings, that active file can grow to 2GB. So it is possible that if objects had been replaced/deleted many times within

RE: Node Recovery Questions

2018-08-08 Thread Martin Sumner
Sean, Some partial answers to your questions. I don't believe force-replace itself will sync anything up - it just reassigns ownership (hence handoff happens very quickly). Read repair would synchronise a portion of the data. So if 10% of you data is read regularly, this might explain some of w

Node Recovery Questions

2018-08-08 Thread sean mcevoy
Hi All, A few questions on the procedure here to recover a failed node: http://docs.basho.com/riak/kv/2.2.3/using/repair-recovery/failed-node/ We lost a production riak server when AWS decided to delete a node and we plan on doing this procedure to replace it with a newly built node. A practice r