You need a quorum relative to your replication factor. You mentioned in the first e-mail that you have RF=2, so you need a quorum of 2. If you use RF=3, then you need a quorum of 2 as well.
-----Original Message----- From: "B. Todd Burruss" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 4:14pm To: [email protected] Subject: Re: quorum / hinted handoff not really. it seems that if i start with 3 nodes, remove 1 of them, i should still have a quorum, which is 2. this is not what i experience. On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 16:03 -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > Oh, okay. Then it's working as expected. > > Does it make more sense to you now? :) > > -Jonathan > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:43 PM, B. Todd Burruss <[email protected]> wrote: > > this was on the build i got yesterday, 882359. > > > > ... and you are correct about if you start with 2 nodes and take one > > down - there isn't a quorum and the write/read fails. i tested that as > > well. > > > > thx! > > > > > > On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 15:30 -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, B. Todd Burruss <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > one more point on this .. if i only start a cluster with 2 nodes, and i > >> > use the same config setup (RF=2, etc) .. it works fine. it's only when > >> > i start with the 3 nodes and remove 1. in fact, i remove the node > >> > before i do any reads or writes at all, completely fresh database. > >> > >> That sounds like a bug. If you have 2 nodes, RF of 2, and take one > >> node down then quorum anything should always fail. > >> > >> Is this on trunk still? > >> > >> -Jonathan > > > > > >
