Jonathon, Thanks for the excellent write-up. Definitely clarifies stuff I inferred from the mailing list and other documents I've scrounged around the web.
I'd love to see this document grow as time permits, to include known caveats, hidden features, tweaks, etc. Perhaps, with some common use cases to help elucidate the content? One question, though. I thought I read about using an initial token for a RandmizedPartioner of between 0 and 127, but in your write-up, you say the value should be i * (2**127 / N) for i = 1 .. N. That's a slightly larger number. Can you clarify? Thanks, Robin. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: December 8, 2009 5:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Configuring Cassandra On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Rakesh Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > f) Can I take backups from each node and merge them on a single node? Or > it's not at all required? All you would need to do would be to copy the snapshotted sstables into the data directory on the target node, but I'm not sure why you would want to do that. I wrote http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations to answer the other questions in more detail. :) -Jonathan
