> The more often you repair, the quicker it will be. The more often your
> nodes go down the longer it will be.
Going to have to disagree a bit here. In most cases the cost of
running through the data and calculating the merkle tree should be
quite significant, and hopefully the differences shoul
(not answering (1) right now, because it's more involved)
> 2. Does a Nodetool Repair block any reads and writes on the node,
> while the repair is going on ? During repair, if I try to do an
> insert, will the insert wait for repair to complete first ?
It doesn't imply any blocking. It's roughly
The more often you repair, the quicker it will be. The more often your
nodes go down the longer it will be.
Repair streams data that is missing between nodes. So the more data
that is different the longer it will take. Your workload is impacted
because the node has to scan the data it has to be
