Hi all I recently tried to replace a dead node using -Dcassandra.replace_token=<token>, which so far has been good to me. However on one of my nodes this option was ignored and the node simply picked a different token to live at and started up there.
It was a foolish mistake on my part because it was set as a seed node, which results in this error in the log file: INFO [main] 2012-10-19 12:41:00,886 StorageService.java (line 518) This node will not auto bootstrap because it is configured to be a seed node. but it seems a little scary that this would mean it'll just ignore the fact that you want a replace a token and put itself somewhere else in the cluster. Surely it should behave similarly to trying to replace a live node by throwing some kind of exception?
