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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-4427:
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Here's what we were trying to address there:
bq. Now there is a actual new problem with 1.0.0. That problem is that when you
start an initial cluster, i.e, when in 0.8 you would start node with
auto-boostrap=false, you do often end up starting nodes simultaneously. That is
why older version were using random token when auto-bootstrap was false. This
problem does need to be fix for 1.0.0 because that is a serious regression.
However, my argument is that even though we now default to auto-boostrap=true,
that doesn't mean that there is no difference between setting up the initial
nodes of a cluster and the latter bootstrapping of nodes to add capacity to an
existing cluster. Indeed, in 1.0.0 we decided to draw this line based on
whether a schema had been created or not (we call the bootstrap() method based
on that). Imho, this means that we have no boostrap option and the "I have no
schema" is the old auto-boostrap=false. So we should use random token in that
case and balanced one otherwise the same way we are doing it in
0.8.
> Restarting a failed bootstrap instajoins the ring
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> Key: CASSANDRA-4427
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4427
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Brandon Williams
> Assignee: Brandon Williams
> Fix For: 1.0.11, 1.1.3
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> Attachments: 4427.txt
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> I think when we made auto_bootstrap = true the default, we broke the check
> for the bootstrap flag, creating a dangerous situation.
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