Hi all First off, let's introduce the setup.
- 6 x C* 1.1.2 in active DC (DC1), another 6 in another (DC2) - keyspace's RF=3 in each DC - Hector as client. - client talks only to DC1 unless DC1 can't serve the request. In which case talks only to DC2 - commit log was periodically sync with the default setting of 10s. - consistency policy = LOCAL QUORUM for both read and write. - we are running on production linux VMs (not ideal but this is out of our hands) ----- As part of a DR exercise, we killed all 6 nodes in DC1, hector starts talking to DC2, all the data was still there, everything continued to work perfectly. Then we brought all nodes, one by one, in DC1 up. We saw a message saying all the commit logs were replayed. No errors reported. We didn't run repair at this time. We noticed that data that was written an hour before the exercise, around the last memtables being flushed,was not found in DC1. If we understand correctly, commit logs are being written first and then to disk every 10s. At worst we lost the last 10s of data. What could be the cause of this behaviour? With the blessing of C* we could recovered all these data from DC2. But we would like to understand why. Many thanks in advanced. Amy
