Originally from the User Slack
@Rinson_John: Hi,
Do we have any alternative for nodetool assassinate in ScyllaDB? I would like to remove a node from the cluster without re-replicating any data.
Using scylla 4.2.1 version.
@Morten_Bo: New user so not an expert - but wouldn’t that mean you get a replication factor issue?
Since if you take out a node, whatever data that node was carrying must either be replicated elsewhere (to keep whatever replication level you have) or you will have data which is NOT replicated as per your replication setup.
@Felipe_Cardeneti_Mendes: Your understanding is correct @Morten_Bo.
@Rinson_John you can use nodetool removenode force after a removenode, and this should work. But it goes without saying that your deployment is ancient, so you should upgrade.