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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:18:19 -0500
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Subject: Re: Removing zombie node
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Short version is, it's harmless.

A full cluster restart (all at once) would clear it out though.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Marcus Bointon
<marcus@synchromedia.co.uk> wrote:
> A while ago I removed a node (on EC2) with decommission and removed its token. It all seemed happy at the time, but on creating a column family, I get this:
>
> Waiting for schema agreement...
> Warning: unreachable nodes <ip>... schemas agree across the cluster
>
> The IP it lists is not in the ring. How do I rid myself of this zombie node?
>
> Marcus



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Jonathan Ellis
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