Removetoken should only be used when removing a dead node from a cluster,
it's a much slower and more expensive operation since it triggers a repair
so that the remaining nodes can figure out which data they should now have.
Decommission on the other hand is much simpler, the node that's being
deco
use nodetool decommission and nodetool removetoken
On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Senthilvel Rangaswamy wrote:
> We have a cluster of 9 nodes in the ring. We would like SSD backed boxes.
> But we may not need 9
> nodes in that case. What is the best way to downscale the cluster to 6 or
> 3 nod
