It does not. (Most failures are transient, so Cassandra doesn't inflict the non-negligible performance impact of re-replicating a full node's worth of data until you tell it "that guys' not coming back this time.")
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Paul Loy <ketera...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess my next question is: the data should be complete somewhere in the > ring with RF = 2. Does cassandra not redistribute the replication ring > without a nodetool decommission call? > > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Paul Loy <ketera...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> ahh, thanks. >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Quorum of 2 is 2. You need at least RF=3 for quorum to tolerate losing >>> a node indefinitely. >>> >>> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Paul Loy <ketera...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > We have a 4 node cluster with a replication factor of 2. When one node >>> > dies, >>> > the other nodes throw UnavailableExceptions for quorum reads (as >>> > expected >>> > initially). They never get out of that state. >>> > >>> > Is there something we can do in nodetool to make the remaining nodes >>> > function? >>> > >>> > Thanks. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > --------------------------------------------- >>> > Paul Loy >>> > p...@keteracel.com >>> > http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jonathan Ellis >>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra >>> co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support >>> http://www.datastax.com >> >> >> >> -- >> --------------------------------------------- >> Paul Loy >> p...@keteracel.com >> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy > > > > -- > --------------------------------------------- > Paul Loy > p...@keteracel.com > http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
