setting up prod cluster

2015-01-11 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey all, I've been experimenting with Cassandra on a small scale and in my own sandbox for a while now. I'm pretty used to working with it to get small clusters up and running and gossiping with each other. But I just had a new project at work drop into my lap that requires a NoSQL data store. A

Re: Is there a way to add a new node to a cluster but not sync old data?

2015-01-11 Thread Eric Stevens
Yes, but it won't do what I suspect you're hoping for. If you disable auto_bootstrap in cassandra.yaml the node will join the cluster and will not stream any old data from existing nodes. The cluster will now be in an inconsistent state. If you bring enough nodes online this way to violate your

Re: java exception on startup

2015-01-11 Thread Tim Dunphy
Spencer, > We don't use thrift clients anymore, so it doesn't matter so much. But > it's trying to read a file that doesn't exist or had bad perms. You'd have > to get the source for the cassandra files anyway and try to figure out what > file it's looking for. Probably some datafile that gets