I'm not sure what you mean, but http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations may clear some things up.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Sriram Srinivasan <sri...@malhar.net> wrote: > Fair enough. But doesn't that mean that the node that comes up has the same > token? I suppose the answer is that the auto bootstrap process is smart > enough to figure out which range needs help. > > Thanks much, Jonathan. > --sriram. > > > On Jun 11, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > >> 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 > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com