repartitioning is expensive. you don't want to do it as soon as a node goes down (which may be temporary, cassandra has no way of knowing). so repartitioning happens when decommission is done by a human.
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Sriram Srinivasan <sri...@malhar.net> wrote: > I am looking at Cassandra 0.6.2's source code, and am unable to figure out > where, if at all, repartitioning happens in the case of failure. The > Gossiper's onDead message is ignored. Can someone please clarify this for > me? -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
