On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert Wille <rwi...@fold3.com> wrote:
> As a a test, I took down a node, deleted /var/lib/cassandra and restarted > it. After it joined the cluster, it’s about 75% the size of its neighbors > (both in terms of bytes and numbers of keys). Prior to my test it was > approximately the same size. I have no explanation for why that node would > shrink so much, other than data loss. I have no deleted data, and no TTL’s. > Only a small percentage of my data has had any updates (and some of my > tables have had only inserts, and those have shrunk by 25% as well). I > don’t really know how to check if I have records that have fewer than three > replicas (RF=3). > Sounds suspicious, actually. I would suspect "partial-bootstrap." To determine if you have under-replicated data, run repair. That's what it's for. =Rob