On 26 May 2011, at 15:21, Sasha Dolgy wrote: > Turn the node off, remove the node from the ring using nodetool and > removetoken .... i've found this to be the best problem-free way. > Maybe it's better now ... > http://blog.sasha.dolgy.com/2011/03/apache-cassandra-nodetool.html
So I'd need to have at least replication=2 in order to do that safely? Your article makes it sound like draining/decommission doesn't work? Has anyone automated node addition/removal using chef or similar? Marcus