The datastax documentation was fixed after the initial confusion with vnodes vs non-vnodes, so you should be safe to follow the procedure described there. Make sure to set the -Dcassandra.replace_address=address_of_dead_node JVM option (don't worry about the initial token).
2015-09-17 21:21 GMT-03:00 John Wong <[email protected]>: > Hi > > Can the community help to confirm that > http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/1.2/cassandra/operations/ops_replace_node_t.html > will work for non-vnode cluster in Cassandra 1.2. > > It looks like I don't have to set the initial token for the replacement > node (but same IP) at all if I run the JVM opts during startup. > > I read a couple mailing list threads. > > [1]: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Bootstrap-failure-on-C-1-2-13-td7592664.html > > [2]: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Replacing-a-dead-node-in-Cassandra-2-0-8-td7596245.html > > They mentioned that back in the date 1.2 doc would defer user to 1.1 doc, > but the current 1.2 doc doesn't mention anything about that. > > Also these as references > > [3]: > https://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations#For_versions_1.2.0_and_above > [4]: > http://blog.alteroot.org/articles/2014-03-12/replace-a-dead-node-in-cassandra.html > > Thank you. > > John >
