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From: Roger Schildmeijer <schildmeijer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bootstrap source code
Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 18:50:51 +0200
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s/hinted handoff/read repair

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> (Moved to developers mailing list)
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> Without delve to deep into to that part of the code my educated(?) =
guess is that this will (eventually) be solved/repaired thanks to hinted =
handoff and anti entropy service.
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> On 2 maj 2010, at 18.29em, Bill Hastings wrote:
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>> Hi
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>> I have looking at the bootstrap source and seem to understand it for =
the most part. This is what I do not follow:
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>> (1) New node joins and doesn't advertise its token.
>> (2) Requests nodes to send it data. The nodes that need to send it =
data first flush memtables and then transfer SSTables.
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>> Once the streaming is over the new node advertises its token and =
starts handling reads and writes correct? But what happens to keys that =
are being written to the old nodes after the memtables have been dumped. =
Looks like there is a window where keys would be going to the old nodes =
and not making it to the new nodes. Am I missing something here.
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>> --=20
>> Cheers
>> Bill
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