there is a window of time from when a node goes down and when the rest of the cluster actually realizes that it is down.
what happens to writes during this time frame? does hinted handoff record these writes and then "handoff" when the down node returns? or does hinted handoff not kick in until the cluster realizes the node is down? ... is the only way these missed writes are repaired is through read repair and/or manually kicking off "nodetool repair"? thx
