yes. dead normally means machine cannot be started. Aaron On 10/03/2011, at 6:01 AM, Sasha Dolgy wrote:
> > Hi there, > > Wanted to clarify with anyone ... re: > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#Removing_nodes_entirely > > You can take a node out of the cluster with nodetool decommission to a live > node, or nodetool removetoken (to any other machine) to remove a dead one. > This will assign the ranges the old node was responsible for to other nodes, > and replicate the appropriate data there. If decommission is used, the data > will stream from the decommissioned node. If removetoken is used, the data > will stream from the remaining replicas. > > If the node is alive and functional, the command to be run from that node is: > nodetool decommission > If the node is dead, the command to be run from another node (or all other > nodes) is: nodetool removetoken <token> > > -sd > > -- > Sasha Dolgy > [email protected] > >
