On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Jack Krupansky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hinted handoff - which is what provides eventual consistency - can time > out and be discarded/lost if the cluster is under heavy load or encounters > poor network connectivity or nodes are down for too long, which is what > requires running repair. That's why quorum is the recommended cl for both > write and read for true consistency. > As a minor quibble, hinted handoff "provides" nothing, for the reasons you say : delivery is not guaranteed. The only guarantor of consistency is repair. [1] =Rob [1] or read repair set to 100% combined with a full scan of all data... which no one does...
