On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, B. Todd Burruss <bburr...@real.com> wrote: > there is a window of time from when a node goes down and when the rest > of the cluster actually realizes that it is down. > > what happens to writes during this time frame? does hinted handoff > record these writes and then "handoff" when the down node returns? or > does hinted handoff not kick in until the cluster realizes the node is > down?
the latter. > ... is the only way these missed writes are repaired is through read > repair and/or manually kicking off "nodetool repair"? yes. -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
