Hi Louis-Philippe

There are no dumb questions. :)

On Wednesday, June 26, 2013, Louis-Philippe Perron wrote:

> Hi Riak people!
> Here is a dumb question, but anyway I want to clear this doubt out:
>
> What happens when a bucket has a W quorum value higher than the N number
> of nodes?
> are writes to disk multiplied?
>
>
Precisely. For example, if you run a one node Riak cluster on your dev
machine you'll be writing with a N val of 3 and W of 2 by default. In other
words, Riak will always attempt to satisfy the W value regardless of
physical node count.

Hope that helps.

Mark
twitter.com/pharkmillups


> thanks!
>
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