On 4/7/10 7:39 AM, Mark Jones wrote:
> Also, if the data is pushed out to the other nodes before the bootstrapping, why has data been lost?  Does this mean that decommissioning a node results in data loss?

As I understand it, in the following scenario :

1) Node A has Keys 0-10.

2) Add Node B as a bootstrapping node, Node A is loadbalanced, sheds 
keys 5-10 to Node B.

Keys 5-10 are not actually removed from the SSTables on Node A until a 
"cleanup compaction" is run. A "cleanup compaction" is a "major 
compaction" which also checks to see whether keys still "belong" on this 
host.

I don't know whether you have actually experienced data loss, but based 
on the above, it should not be possible for you to have.

=Rob