It's not just a matter of being balanced, if you add new nodes without bootstrapping the others will think it has data on it, that hasn't actually been moved there.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 6:50 AM, hive13 Wong <hiv...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, guys > The 2 ways of adding new nodes, when add with bootstrapping, since we've > already got lots of data, often it will take many hours to complete the > bootstrapping and probably affect the performance of existing nodes. But if > we add without bootstrapping, the data load on the new node could be quite > unbalanced. > Is there a better way of adding a new node with less cost while more > balanced? Maybe a steady approach at a cost of longer time while not > affecting current nodes much. > Thanks -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
