On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM, mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to let the new node join cluster in the background and make it > live to clients only after it has finished with node repair, syncing data > etc. and in the end sync keys or trees that's needed before it's come to > life. I know it can be tricky since it needs to be live as soon as it steals > the keys.
In general, no. This sort of thing has been proposed a few times, in different contexts, and has not been implemented. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-768 =Rob