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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-8494:
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Why is it a big deal if bootstrap takes a day or two given reasonable capacity
planning?
> incremental bootstrap
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8494
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8494
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Jon Haddad
> Priority: Minor
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> Current bootstrapping involves (to my knowledge) picking tokens and streaming
> data before the node is available for requests. This can be problematic with
> "fat nodes", since it may require 20TB of data to be streamed over before the
> machine can be useful. This can result in a massive window of time before
> the machine can do anything useful.
> As a potential approach to mitigate the huge window of time before a node is
> available, I suggest modifying the bootstrap process to only acquire a single
> initial token before being marked UP. This would likely be a configuration
> parameter "incremental_bootstrap" or something similar.
> After the node is bootstrapped with this one token, it could go into UP
> state, and could then acquire additional tokens (one or a handful at a time),
> which would be streamed over while the node is active and serving requests.
> The benefit here is that with the default 256 tokens a node could become an
> active part of the cluster with less than 1% of it's final data streamed over.
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