Re: Adding Nodes to a Running Cluster

2013-08-25 Thread Gints Gailītis
Well, I guess they're working on it - http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ops/running/nodes/adding-removing/#The-Node-Join-Process- but for now, that's just something we have to live with during node addition / removal. Also, I guess, if you do it all in one go, it just finishes faster, decreasing t

Re: Adding Nodes to a Running Cluster

2013-08-25 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
Ah, the second bullet point ("Don't add nodes one at a time if you're adding multiple nodes") clarifies it perfectly. I would've thought otherwise since there are possibilities of false not_found responses during node addition. Thanks for pointing me to that page. --- Jeremiah Peschka - Founder,

Re: Adding Nodes to a Running Cluster

2013-08-25 Thread Gints
I believe they actually recommend adding all the nodes you want to add in a single step, instead of one by one - this way the hand-off will happen only once, and all the objects will go to the right nodes immediately. If you add nodes one by one, the objects will have to do multiple transitions, s

Adding Nodes to a Running Cluster

2013-08-25 Thread Jeremiah Peschka
The Riak documentation makes it sound like you should only add one node to a running cluster at the same time. Is it wise to add multiple nodes to a cluster at the same time? What cluster considerations should I take into account before doing so? I can see this being very problematic with a 5 no