> Thing is, why is it so easy for the repair process to break? OK, I admit I'm
> not sure why nodes are reported as "dead" once in a while, but it's
> absolutely certain that they simply don't fall off the edge, are knocked out
> for 10 min or anything like that. Why is there no built-in tolerance/
OK, thanks to the excellent help of Datastax folks, some of the more
severe inconsistencies in my Cassandra cluster were fixed (after a node
was down and compactions failed etc).
I'm still having problems as reported in "repairs 0.8.6." thread.
Thing is, why is it so easy for the repair proces
