Hi Isaac, I am fine with having that property set to true in cassandra_latest.yaml only.
Regards On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM Isaac Reath <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > There’s ongoing interest in preventing nodes from starting after being > offline longer than gc_grace_seconds, to avoid data resurrection issues. > > This is already supported via `check_data_resurrection.enabled` (added in 4.1 > via CASSANDRA-17180), but it remains disabled by default. Recent discussion > in CASSANDRA-21221 suggests that operators may be unaware of this setting and > end up reimplementing similar safeguards themselves. > > Given that this feature has now been available in 4.1 and 5.0, I'd like to > propose enabling it by default in cassandra_latest.yaml for 6.0. Are there > any concerns with making this change? > > Isaac
