There is no 'master' so all copies are replicas. RF=1 means 1 node has the data, RF=2 means 2 do, etc.
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 4:16 AM, Per Olesen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am unclear about what the ReplicationFactor value means. > > Does RF=1 mean that there is only one single node that has the data in the > cluster (actually no replication), or, does it mean, that there are two > copies of the data - one "actual" and one "replica" (as in "replicated one > time")? > > I noticed, that I CAN start a node with RF=0, but I get UnavailableException > when trying to insert, so I assume RF=0 is wrong then? > > Put another way: If I want my data to always live on exactly 2 nodes in the > cluster, do I set RF=2 or RF=1? :-) > > /Per
