You might be confusing the RackAware strategy (which puts 1 replica in a remote DC) and the DatacenterShard strategy (which puts M of N replicas in remote DCs). Both are in 0.6.5.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tags/cassandra-0.6.5/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/locator/DatacenterShardStategy.java On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:23 PM, rbukshin rbukshin <rbuks...@gmail.com> wrote: > The one in 0.6 doesn't allow controlling number of replicas to place in > other DC. Atmost 1 copy of data can be placed in other DC. > > What are other differences between the implementation in 0.6 vs 0.7? > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Benjamin Black <b...@b3k.us> wrote: >> >> DCShard is in 0.6. It has been rewritten in 0.7. >> >> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:02 PM, rbukshin rbukshin <rbuks...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Is there any plan to backport DataCenterShardStrategy to 0.6.x from 0.7? >> > It >> > will be very useful for those who don't want to make drastic changes in >> > their code and get the benefits of this replica placement strategy. >> > >> > -- >> > Thanks, >> > -rbukshin >> > >> > > > > > -- > Thanks, > -rbukshin > >