Benjamin Black <b <at> b3k.us> writes: > > 3. I waited for the data to replicate, which didn't happen. > > Correct, you need to run nodetool repair because the nodes were not > present when the writes came in. You can also use a higher > consistency level to force read repair before returning data, which > will incrementally repair things. >
Alternatively you could configure new nodes to bootstrap in storage-conf.xml. If bootstrap is enalbed you'll get data replicated on them as soon as they join cluster.