Hi, You don't need to restart for that either. Check this out: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.1/cluster_management#replication-factor
Cheers, Hannu 2013/10/10 <j...@jnshangjie.com> > ** > Hello, > > thank you very much for your reply. > > I want to ask another question: > for an already existed keyspace, can I change the number of replicas in > it's REPLICATION option? > If so, do I need to restart the whole cluster? > > Thanaks in advance. > > ju wenguang > > *From:* Hannu Kröger <hkro...@gmail.com> > *Date:* 2013-10-10 16:10 > *To:* user <user@cassandra.apache.org>; juwg <j...@jnshangjie.com> > *Subject:* Re: Add a new node > Hello, > > No you don't need to. Check this out: > http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/operations/ops_add_node_to_cluster_t.html > > Cheers, > Hannu > > > 2013/10/10 juwg <j...@jnshangjie.com> > >> ** >> Hi all, >> >> I want to ask a basic question: To add a new node to Cassandra system, do >> I need to restart the Cassandra system? >> >> thanks >> >> ------------------------------ >> juwenguang >> jn shangjie >> > >