Re: Shrinking cluster with counters ...

2011-10-05 Thread aaron morton
Is the cluster still in use ? The safe way would be to reduce the RF to 1, and then nodetool decomission the nodes one at a time. This will cause them to stream data to the remaining node(s), and at the same time the node that takes ownership will be receiving writes for the new token range. I

Shrinking cluster with counters ...

2011-10-04 Thread Ian Danforth
All, If I have a 3 node cluster storing counters and RF3, is it possible to shrink back down to a single node cluster? If so should I change replication factor, disable a node, wait for streaming to complete, and repeat for the other node? Should I assume that the cluster will be unavailable duri