thx, but disappointing :) is this just something we have to live with and periodically "repair" the nodes? or is there future work to tighten up the window?
thx On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 12:13 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:43 PM, B. Todd Burruss <bburr...@real.com> wrote: > > there is a window of time from when a node goes down and when the rest > > of the cluster actually realizes that it is down. > > > > what happens to writes during this time frame? does hinted handoff > > record these writes and then "handoff" when the down node returns? or > > does hinted handoff not kick in until the cluster realizes the node is > > down? > > the latter. > > > ... is the only way these missed writes are repaired is through read > > repair and/or manually kicking off "nodetool repair"? > > yes. >