Hello,
As part of routine maintenance for our cluster, my colleagues and I will run a nodetool drain before stopping a Cassandra node, performing maintenance, and bringing it back up. We run maintenance as a cron-job with a lock stored in a different cluster to ensure only node is ever down at a time. We would like to make sure the node has replayed all its hints before bringing it down to minimize the potential window in which users might read out-of-date data (we read at a consistency level of ONE). Is it possible to replay hints after performing a nodetool drain? The documentation leads me to believe its not since Cassandra will stop listening for connections from other nodes, but I was unable to find anything definitive either way. If a node won't replay hints after a nodetool drain, is there perhaps another way to tell Cassandra to stop listening for client connections but continue to replay hints to other nodes. Thanks, Jerome
