Thanks for the link Rob, So basically all is down to which keys the node will end up being responsible for. It could end up holding 100% of the data (that is including replicas if I read it right). Looks like ensuring that a node is capable of holding 100% of your data is necessary...
Bill On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Vasileios Vlachos < > vasileiosvlac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Say you have 6 nodes with 300G each. So you decommission N1 and you bring >> it back in with Vnodes. Is that going to stream back 90%+ of the 300Gx6, or >> it eventually will hold the 90%+ of all the data stored into your cluster? >> If the second is what actually happens, this process should be safe on a >> live cluster as well, given that you are going to upgrade the other 5 nodes >> straight after.. >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5525 > > ? > > =Rob > >
