Re: problem removing dead node from ring

2014-06-07 Thread Curious Patient
Hey all, OK I gave removing the downed node from the cassandra ring another try. To recap what's going on, this is what my ring looks like with nodetool status: [root@beta-new:~] #nodetool status Datacenter: datacenter1 === Status=Up/Down |/

problem removing dead node from ring

2014-06-03 Thread Curious Patient
One of the nodes in a cassandra cluster has died. I'm using cassandra 2.0.7 throughout. When I do a nodetool status this is what I see (real addresses have been replaced with fake 10 nets) [root@beta-new:/opt] #nodetool status Datacenter: datacenter1 ===

Re: Question about replacing a dead node

2014-06-03 Thread Curious Patient
Assuming replication factor is 2, if a node dies, why does it matter? If we add a new node is added, shouldn't it just take the chunk of data it server as the primary node from the other existing nodes. Why do we need to worry about replacing the dead node? The reason this matters is

Re: Question about replacing a dead node

2014-06-03 Thread Curious Patient
2014, at 17:35, Curious Patient mongoma...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming replication factor is 2, if a node dies, why does it matter? If we add a new node is added, shouldn't it just take the chunk of data it server as the primary node from the other existing nodes. Why do we need to worry about

Re: problem removing dead node from ring

2014-06-03 Thread Curious Patient
10.10.1.98 | head -1 I want to be sure I'm using the right token. Thanks Tim On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Robert Coli rc...@eventbrite.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Curious Patient mongoma...@gmail.com wrote: I then started following this documentation on how to replace

Re: problem removing dead node from ring

2014-06-03 Thread Curious Patient
, Curious Patient mongoma...@gmail.com wrote: I want to be sure I'm using the right token. In nodetool ring, if you're not using vnodes, only one token should be listed with both the IP of the old node and the status Down. If you are using vnodes, it's a comma delimited list in initial_token