Yes, Cassandra nodes accept writes during Repair. Also Repair triggers compactions to remove any tombstones.
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Khaja, Raziuddin (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] < raziuddin.kh...@nih.gov> wrote: > I was not able to find a conclusive answer to this question on the > internet so I am asking this question here. > Is a Cassandra node able to accept insert or delete operations while the > node is being repaired? > Thanks > -Razi > -- Arun Senior Hadoop/Cassandra Engineer Cloudwick Champion of Big Data (Cloudera) http://www.cloudera.com/content/dev-center/en/home/champions-of-big-data.html 2014 Data Impact Award Winner (Cloudera) http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/campaign/data-impact-awards.html