Important safety tip, I did not know that.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:02 AM, ChingShen <chingshenc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hmm.. as you mentioned that it will write a hint and report success at >>> CL.ANY, does the hinted handoff only work at CL.ANY? >>> >> >> Still no. Hints are written when nodes are down, regardless of CL, >> unless HH is disabled. CL does not influence whether hints are >> written, it influences whether success is reported to the client. For >> CL.ANY a hint is a success, for CL.ONE it is a failure. > > If the coordinator knows it can't achieve the requested CL it won't do > any writes, hinted or otherwise, and will immediately report > UnavailableException to the client. > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://riptano.com >
