Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Moseley
r be > available for all keys. So long as there are still 3 "natural endpoints" for > each key. > > Hope that helps. > > Aaron > > On 15/01/2011, at 8:52 AM, Mark Moseley wrote: > >>> Perhaps the better question would be, if I have a two node cluster and &g

Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Moseley
> Perhaps the better question would be, if I have a two node cluster and > I want to be able to lose one box completely and replace it (without > losing the cluster), what settings would I need? Or is that an > impossible scenario? In production, I'd imagine a 3 node cluster being > the minimum but

Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Moseley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Mark Moseley wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: >> It is impossible to properly bootstrap a new node into a system where >> there are not enough nodes to satisfy the replication factor.  The >> cluster as it stand

Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Moseley
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Gary Dusbabek wrote: > It is impossible to properly bootstrap a new node into a system where > there are not enough nodes to satisfy the replication factor.  The > cluster as it stands doesn't contain all the data you are asking it to > replicate on the new node.

Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-13 Thread Mark Moseley
I'm just starting to play with Cassandra, so this is almost certainly a conceptual problem on my part, so apologies in advance. I was testing out how I'd do things like bring up new nodes. I've got a simple 2-node cluster with my only keyspace having replication_factor=2. This is on 32-bit Debian S