According to my experience if bootstrap is running on already Live cluster node (and dead from sometime) then it start serving read during bootstrap process also but if bootstrap is running on new node (which is joining cluster first time) then read requests will not go to this node until bootstrap completes
-----Original Message----- From: John Lewis [mailto:lewili...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 October 2012 00:51 To: user@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: what happens while node is bootstrapping? Bootstrapping nodes do not handle reads requests until the bootstrap process is complete. JLewis On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:19 PM, Andrey Ilinykh <ailin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, everybody! > I'd like to clarify a bootstrapping process. As far as I understand, > bootstrapping node starts to accept writes immediately. What about > reads? > Bootstrapping node doesn't have all information, only replica nodes > have. Does it mean read operations with CL ALL may fail during > bootstrapping process? > > Thank you, > Andrey CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.