So if I get you right and extrapolate with the replication documentation
page, can I say that on a 2 nodes cluster, with a bucket set to N=3 and
W=ALL, my writes would be written 3 times to disk? (and with no guarantee
to be on different nodes)?

thanks!

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Mark Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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