On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> it will migrate you to virtual nodes by splitting the existing partition >> 256 ways. > > > Out of curiosity, is it for the purpose of avoiding streaming?
It splits into a contiguous range, because truly upgrading to vnode functionality is another step. > >> the former would require you to perform a shuffle to achieve that. > > > Is there a nodetool option or are there other ways "shuffle" could be done > automatically? There a shuffle command in bin/ that was recently committed, we'll document this in process in NEWS.txt shortly. -Brandon