Hinted Handoff works well. But it's an optimisation that has certain safety
valves, configuration and throttling that means it is still not considered the
way to ensure on disk consistency.
In general, if a node restarts or drops mutations HH should get the message
there eventually. In
That would be OK only if you never had node go down (e.g. a restart) or drop
messages.
It's not something I would consider trying.
Cheers
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Aaron Morton
Freelance Cassandra Developer
New Zealand
@aaronmorton
http://www.thelastpickle.com
On 28/02/2013, at 3:21 PM, Mike Koh
Thanks for the response. Could you elaborate more on the bad things
that happen during a restart or message drops that would cause a 1
replica restore to fail? I'm completely on board with not using a
restore process that nobody else uses, but I need to convince somebody
else who thinks that
