Re: Adding New Nodes to a Production Cluster

2012-06-27 Thread Eran Chinthaka Withana
Thanks Robin for the insight. I thought the node will start serving requests before the bootstrap process completes. Seems like I'm wrong. I got this verified thru #cassandra too. Thanks, Eran Chinthaka Withana On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Robin Verlangen wrote: > Hi Eran, > > As far as I'

Re: Adding New Nodes to a Production Cluster

2012-06-27 Thread Robin Verlangen
Hi Eran, As far as I'm aware of a node will not serve requests until the bootstrap (starts automatically these days) has been completed. So the problem of #1 is not really there Solution #2 is not straight forward and easy to make mistakes. When you're concerned about read consistency use a prope

Adding New Nodes to a Production Cluster

2012-06-27 Thread Eran Chinthaka Withana
Hi, We have a production cluster with few nodes in each data center. Each node is being contacted in each data center to serve front end requests. I have a question about the method adding new nodes to the cluster (say, to improve RF or scalability). AFAIK, there are two methods to do this. 1. Br