Joey Lynch had a good idea - that if the allocate tokens for RF isn't set
we use 1 as the RF. I suggested we take it a step further and use the rack
count as the RF if it's not set.
This should take care of most clusters even if they don't set the RF, and
will handle the uneven distribution when
Also worth mentioning that, from the driver's perspective, it has to
support a protocol version during the lifetime of the C* version line. For
example, the drivers should drop support for protocol v3 after C* 2.1 goes
EOL, somewhere this year, a protocol that was released back in 2014.
We _could_
If you don’t know what you are doing you will have one rack which will also be
safe. If you are setting up racks then you most likely read something about
doing that, and should also be fine.
This discussion has gone off the rails 100 times with what ifs that are
“letting perfect be the enemy of