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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