Almost, but not quite: if you have nodes A,B,C and repair A, it will transfer A<->B, A<->C, but not B<->C.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2610 is open to make this match your intuition. On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Philippe <watche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looking at the logs, I see that repairs stream data TO and FROM a node to > its replicas. > So on a 3-node RF=3 cluster, one only needs to launch repairs on a single > node right ? > Thanks -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com