Hi, Edward Capriolo described in his Cassandra book a faster way [1] to start new nodes if the cluster size doubles, from N to 2 *N.
It's about splitting in 2 parts each token range taken in charge, after the split, with 2 nodes: the existing one, and a new one. And for starting a new node, one needs to: - copy the data records from the corresponding node (without the "system" records) - start the new node with "auto_bootstrap: false" This raises 2 questions: A) is this recipe still valid with v1.1 and v1.2 ? B) do we still need to start the new node with "auto_bootstrap: false" ? My guess is "yes" as the happening of the bootstrap phase is not recorded into the data records. Thanks. Dominique [1] see recipe "A node join using external data copy methods", page 165
