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

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