Re: Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Ioannis Zafiropoulos
Excellent! Thank you Jeff. On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Jeff Jirsa wrote: > 3.10 has 6696 in it, so my understanding is you'll probably be fine just > running repair > > > Yes, same risks if you swap drives - before 6696, you want to replace a > whole node if any

Re: Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Jeff Jirsa
3.10 has 6696 in it, so my understanding is you'll probably be fine just running repair Yes, same risks if you swap drives - before 6696, you want to replace a whole node if any sstables are damaged or lost (if you do deletes, and if it hurts you if deleted data comes back to life). --

Re: Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Ioannis Zafiropoulos
I just want to add that we use vnodes=16 if that helps with my questions.. On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Ioannis Zafiropoulos wrote: > Thank you Jeff for your answer, > > I use RF=3 and our client connect always with QUORUM. So I guess I will be > alright after a repair

Re: Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Ioannis Zafiropoulos
Thank you Jeff for your answer, I use RF=3 and our client connect always with QUORUM. So I guess I will be alright after a repair (?) Follow up questions, - It seems that the risks you describing would be the same as if I had replaced the drive with an new fresh one and run repair, is that

Re: Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Jeff Jirsa
It depends on what consistency level you use for reads/writes, and whether you do deletes The real danger is that there may have been a tombstone on the drive the failed covering data on the disks that remain, where the delete happened older than gc-grace - if you simple yank the disk, that

Removing a disk from JBOD configuration

2017-07-31 Thread Ioannis Zafiropoulos
Hi All, I have a 7 node cluster (Version 3.10) consisting of 5 disks each in JBOD. A few hours ago I had a disk failure on a node. I am wondering if I can: - stop Cassandra on that node - remove the disk, physically and from cassandra.yaml - start Cassandra on that node - run repair I mean, is