I use cassandra 0.7, and I have a cluster of two nodes. I have a first node 192.168.1.109 with in its yaml :
initial_token: auto_bootstrap: false hinted_handoff_enabled: true partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner seeds: - 192.168.1.109 listen_address: 192.168.1.109 rpc_address: 192.168.1.109 I put data in this node (about 16 GB). Everything is fine... I added a second node 192.168.1.201 with in its yaml : initial_token: auto_bootstrap: true hinted_handoff_enabled: true partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner seeds: - 192.168.1.109 listen_address: 192.168.1.201 rpc_address: 192.168.1.201 When I started Cassandra on the second node, I didn't have the message "bootstrapping..." and nothing happened : I just had a 1KB .log file in the commitlog folder but nothing in my data folder when I run nodetool on 192.168.1.109, I got : D:\apache-cassandra-0.7.0>set java_home=C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\ Starting NodeTool Address Status State Load Owns Token 125687736390750535705541125641769698798 192.168.1.109 Up Normal 15,39 GB 89,67% 108113198212385121975153893962264091026 192.168.1.201 Up Normal 55,94 KB 10,33% 125687736390750535705541125641769698798 The second node isn't supposed to have at least 10% of the data ? Thanks !