On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Sam Overton wrote:
> If that is the case then it means you accidentally started those three nodes
> with the default configuration (single-token) and then subsequently changed
> (num_tokens) and then joined them into the cluster.
This would seem to be another reas
Decommissioning those nodes isn't a problem. When you say remove all the
data, I assume you mean rm -rf my data directory (the default
/var/lib/cassandra/data
I'd done this prior to starting up the nodes, because they were installed
with from the apt-get repo, which automatically starts cassandra
Some extra information you could provide which will help debug this: the
logs from those 3 nodes which have no data and the output of "nodetool ring"
Before seeing those I can only guess, but my guess would be that in the
logs on those 3 nodes you will see this: "Calculating new tokens" and this: