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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:08:04 -0500
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Subject: Re: What triggers hint delivery?
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Terje Marthinussen
<tmarthinussen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking quickly at source code tonight.
> As far as I could see from a quick code scan, hint delivery is only
> triggered as a state change from a node is down to when it enters up state?

Right.

> If this is indeed the case, it would potentially explain why we sometimes
> have hints on machines which does not seem to get played back

Why is that?  Hints don't get created in the first place unless a node
is in the down state.

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Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support
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