Probably yes, if you also disabled any sort of failovers from the token-aware client…
(Talking about this makes you realize how many failsafes Cassandra has. And still you can lose data… :-P) /Janne On 18 Dec 2013, at 20:31, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Sylvain Lebresne <sylv...@datastax.com> > wrote: > As Janne said, you could still have hint being written by other nodes if the > one storage node is dead, but you can use the system property > cassandra.maxHintTTL to 0 to disable hints. > > If one uses a Token Aware client with RF=1, that would seem to preclude > hinting even without disabling HH for the entire system; if the coordinator > is always the single replica, why would it send a copy anywhere else? > > =Rob
