nodetool move decommissions the node then bootstraps it back . I've not checked the code but decommission will only send the data it needs to the other nodes, and I believe bootstrap can do that same but I am not sure.
http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Moving_nodes Aaron ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 13 May 2011, at 12:22, Anurag Gujral wrote: > Hi All, > I want to change the token for my cassandra node from T to T+1. It > appears that cassandra in this case brings all the data from the other > nodes(which basically mean i can only do move token if RF is > 1 for my > cluster) . Does cassandra node whose token I am changing looks at the data > stored locally also since it can get that data locally. > > Thanks > Anurag
