Re: quick repair tool question

2011-04-12 Thread Jonathan Colby
cool! and I thought I made that one up myself : ) On Apr 13, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Chris Burroughs wrote: > On 04/12/2011 11:11 AM, Jonathan Colby wrote: >> I'm not sure if this is the "kosher" way to rebuild the sstable data, but it >> seemed to work. > > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operat

Re: quick repair tool question

2011-04-12 Thread Chris Burroughs
On 04/12/2011 11:11 AM, Jonathan Colby wrote: > I'm not sure if this is the "kosher" way to rebuild the sstable data, but it > seemed to work. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Handling_failure Option #3.

Re: quick repair tool question

2011-04-12 Thread Jonathan Colby
I think I answered the question myself. The data is streaming in from other replicas even though the node's data dir was emptied out (system dir was left alone). I'm not sure if this is the "kosher" way to rebuild the sstable data, but it seemed to work. /var/lib/cassandra/data # /opt/c

quick repair tool question

2011-04-12 Thread Jonathan Colby
does a repair just compare the existing data from sstables on the node being repaired, or will it "figure out" which data this node should have and copy it in? I'm trying to refresh all the data for a given node (without reassigning the token) starting with an emptied out data directory. I tri