I think I don't get your situation yet, but if you use RF=2, CL=QUORUM is identical with CL=ALL. Does it explain your experience?
maki On 2011/05/25, at 19:39, Timo Nentwig <timo.nent...@toptarif.de> wrote: > Hi! > > 5 nodes, replication factor of 2, fifth node down. > > As long as I write a single column with hector or pelops, it works. With 2 > columns it fails > because there are supposed to few servers to reach quorum. Confusing. If I > decommission the fifth > node with nodetool quorum works again and I can shut down another (the forth) > node as expected. > > The ring was manually balanced as described here: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Load_balancing. > > Don't get it. Can somebody please explain? > > thx > tcn