[CASSANDRA-5128] Stream hints on decommission

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.1
• Labels: decommission hints
• Assignee: Jason Brown
• Reporter: Jason Brown

Authors

Jason Brown

Reviewers

Jonathan Ellis

• Created: 08/Jan/13 06:03
• Updated: 10/Aug/22 22:02
• Resolved: 24/Jan/13 19:44

Description

Looks like decommissioning a node (nodetool decommission) will stream all the non-system table data out to it's appropriate peers (StorageService.unbootstrap()), but hints will disappear with the node. Let's send those hints to another peer (preferably in the same rack, and hopefully at least the same datacenter) them to be replayed.

The use case here is auto-scaling vnode clusters in ec2. When auto-scaling down, I'd want to call decommission on the node to leave the ring (and be terminated), and still have all of it's artifacts (data and hints) survive.

Issue Links

• breaks: CASSANDRA-7219 Hint streaming can cause decommission to fail
• relates to: CASSANDRA-17808 Optionally avoid hint transfer during decommission