Thanks for the clarification. May want to amend the node rename doc page ( http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/cookbooks/Renaming-Nodes/) to clarify this warning does not apply. It gave me pause.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Alexander Moore <[email protected]>wrote: > In that case you wouldn't actually lose any data, since the data > directories would be there the whole time. > The force-replace command will always give that warning though. > > Thanks, > Alex > > > On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Elias Levy <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Alexander Moore <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> It's referring to the vnode replicas on the node you are replacing. >>> Doing a force-replace reassigns all that nodes partitions without handing >>> them off, so the replicas on that node are "lost". However, since riak >>> replicates to 'N' physical nodes, there should be other replicas of your >>> data. >>> It will take a repair to replicate the data to the new node though. >>> >> >> Alex, >> >> Thanks for the reply. But I am merely doing a force-replace to rename a >> node, meaning that all that node's data is still on disk, I should expect >> no data loss on the node. Is that correct? >> >> Elias Levy >> >> >
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