On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Senthilvel Rangaswamy <senthil...@gmail.com> wrote: > We are running Cassandra 1.1.2 on EC2. Our database is primarily all > counters and we don't do any > deletes. > > Does nodetool repair do anything for such a database. All the docs I read > for nodetool repair suggests > that nodetool repair is needed only if there is deletes.
Since 1.0, repair is only needed if a node crashes. If a node crashes, my understanding is that a cluster-wide repair (with -pr on each node) is required, because the crashed node could have lost a hint for any other node. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2034 =Rob -- =Robert Coli AIM>ALK - rc...@palominodb.com YAHOO - rcoli.palominob SKYPE - rcoli_palominodb
