Single node does not make any sense in Cassandra. It should not make any difference with a single node with whatever number of tokens you start with. You can change your tokens on the test server and see what happens.
On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 5:53 PM Maxim Parkachov <lazy.gop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have several development servers with 1 node and num_tokens 256. As > preparation for testing 4.0 I would like to change num_tokens to 16. > Unfortunately I could not add any additional nodes or additional DC, but > I'm fine with downtime. The important part, data should be preserved. > > What options do I have? > > Thanks in advance, > Maxim. >