The documentation is correct. I was mistakenly remembering discussions in the past about RF > #nodes.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 16/03/2012, at 4:34 AM, Doğan Çeçen wrote: >> I'm not sure why this is not allowed. As long as I do not use CL.all there >> will be enough nodes available to satisfy the read / write (at least when I >> look at ReadCallback and the WriteResponseHandler). Or am I missing >> something here? > > According to http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/cluster_architecture/replication > > "As a general rule, the replication factor should not exceed the > number of nodes in the cluster. However, it is possible to increase > replication factor, and then add the desired number of nodes > afterwards. When replication factor exceeds the number of nodes, > writes will be rejected, but reads will be served as long as the > desired consistency level can be met." > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
