On Apr 10, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Jeremiah Peschka <jeremiah.pesc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you've installed from the apt/yum repository you've installed a single > Riak node on your machine. Riak, though, is configured by default to write > data to three servers. If some of those servers aren't available, Riak is > going to write to a different server via hinted handoff[1]. Since you are > only running one node, that single node receives all copies of your data in > the hopes that some day the other Riak servers in the cluster will come back > for their data. This isn't quite true. A single node cluster is just going to simply store three copies on 3 of its local vnodes. No hinted handoff is involved. If you add nodes to the cluster, as Evan said, data will be distributed amongst them. Ben, tl;dr, Riak will store three copies on your data, by default, even if you're using a single server. Reid
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