A dead node should exist in the ring until it is replaced. If you remove a node
without a replacement, you’ll end up with that replica’s ownership being placed
onto another node without the data having been transferred, and queries against
that range will falsely empty records until a repair is
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Shenghua(Daniel) Wan wrote:
> Hi,
> When a node is dead, is it supposed to exist in the ring?
>
It is still considered as part of a cluster. Imagine a case when you do a
rolling restart, the node would be temporary out of service for maybe a few
minutes to a few