Yes. Some changes you can manually have take affect without a restart (ie compactionthroughput, things settable from jmx). There is also config changes you cant really make like switching the snitch and such without a big todo.
--- Chris On Apr 25, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Phil Burress <philburress...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I wanted to make a configuration change to a single node in a cluster, > what is the recommended approach for doing that? Is it ok to just stop that > instance, make the change and then restart it?