Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Moseley
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Aaron Morton wrote: > Here's some slides I did last year that have a simple explanation of RF > http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/aaronmorton/well-railedcassandra24112010-5901169 > > Short version is, generally no single node contains all the data in the db. > Norm

Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-14 Thread Aaron Morton
Here's some slides I did last year that have a simple explanation of RF http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/aaronmorton/well-railedcassandra24112010-5901169 Short version is, generally no single node contains all the data in the db. Normally the RF is going to be less than the number of nodes, and

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 stands doesn't contain all t

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.

Re: Newbie Replication/Cluster Question

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Dusbabek
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. Gary. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 13:13, Mark Moseley wrote: > I

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