What impact would vnodes have on strong consistency? I think the problem you're describing exists with or without them.
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:30 PM Nate McCall <n...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > >> So my question is: suppose I take a 12 disk JBOD and run 2 Cassandra >> nodes (each with 5 data disks, 1 commit log disk) and either give each its >> own container & IP or change the listen ports. Will this work? What are the >> risks? Will/should Cassandra support this better in the future? >> > > Don't use vnodes if any operations need strong consistency (reading or > writing at quorum). Otherwise, at RF=3, if you loose a single node you will > only have one 1 replica left for some portion of the ring. > > > > -- > ----------------- > Nate McCall > Austin, TX > @zznate > > Co-Founder & Sr. Technical Consultant > Apache Cassandra Consulting > http://www.thelastpickle.com >
