Correct. Also, there is a new feature in 1.1+ that lets you play with live traffic on new nodes before they actually join the ring
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/whats-new-in-cassandra-1-1-live-traffic-sa mpling On 10/16/12 9:42 AM, "Andrey Ilinykh" <ailin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> No. The bootstrapping node will writes for its new range while >> bootstrapping as consistency optimization (more or less), but does not >> contribute to the replication factor or consistency level; all of the >> original replicas for that range still receive writes, serve reads, and >>are >> the nodes that count for consistency level. Basically, the >>bootstrapping >> node has no effect on the existing replicas in terms of RF or CL until >>the >> bootstrap completes. >> >I see. So, if I add new nodes to increase number of writes my cluster >can handle I will not see any improvement until bootstrap process >finished, which may take hours. Is it correct? > >Thank you, > Andrey 'Like' us on Facebook for exclusive content and other resources on all Barracuda Networks solutions. Visit http://barracudanetworks.com/facebook
