Hi, The UnavailableExceptions will be thrown because quorum of size 2 needs at least 2 nodes to be alive (as for qurom of size 3 as well).
The data won't be automatically redistributed to other nodes. Thibaut On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Timo Nentwig <timo.nent...@toptarif.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I've 3 servers running (0.7rc1) with a replication_factor of 2 and use quorum > for writes. But when I shut down one of them UnavailableExceptions are > thrown. Why is that? Isn't that the sense of quorum and a fault-tolerant DB > that it continues with the remaining 2 nodes and redistributes the data to > the broken one as soons as its up again? > > What may I be doing wrong? > > thx > tcn
