So, you're saying that deleted rows can come back even if the node is always up or down for less than max_hint_window_in_ms, right ?
-- Cyril SCETBON On Apr 5, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com<mailto:edlinuxg...@gmail.com>> wrote: There are a series of edge cases that dictate the need for repair. The largest cases are 1) lost deletes 2) random disk corruptions In our use case we only delete entire row keys, and if the row key comes back it is not actually a problem because our software will find it an delete it again. In those places we dodge running repair believe it or not. Edward On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Jean-Armel Luce <jaluc...@gmail.com<mailto:jaluc...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi Cyril, According to the documentation (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Frequency_of_nodetool_repair), I understand that is is not necessary to repair every node before gc_grace_seconds if you are sure that you don't miss to run a repair each time a node is down longer than gc_grace_seconds. "*IF* your operations team is sufficiently on the ball, you can get by without repair as long as you do not have hardware failure -- in that case, HintedHandoff is adequate to repair successful updates that some replicas have missed" Am I wrong ? Thoughts ? 2013/4/4 <cscetbon....@orange.com<mailto:cscetbon....@orange.com>> Hi, I know that deleted rows can reappear if "node repair" is not run on every node before gc_grace_seconds seconds. However do we really need to obey this rule if we run "node repair" on node that are down for more than max_hint_window_in_ms milliseconds ? Thanks -- Cyril SCETBON _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, France Telecom - Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, France Telecom - Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ce message et ses pieces jointes peuvent contenir des informations confidentielles ou privilegiees et ne doivent donc pas etre diffuses, exploites ou copies sans autorisation. Si vous avez recu ce message par erreur, veuillez le signaler a l'expediteur et le detruire ainsi que les pieces jointes. Les messages electroniques etant susceptibles d'alteration, France Telecom - Orange decline toute responsabilite si ce message a ete altere, deforme ou falsifie. Merci. This message and its attachments may contain confidential or privileged information that may be protected by law; they should not be distributed, used or copied without authorisation. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this message and its attachments. As emails may be altered, France Telecom - Orange is not liable for messages that have been modified, changed or falsified. Thank you.