diff --git a/docs/distributed_filer.rst b/docs/distributed_filer.rst
index ad9f85d5c..b4bd9a43a 100644
--- a/docs/distributed_filer.rst
+++ b/docs/distributed_filer.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ Cassandra Setup
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 Here is the CQL to create the table.CassandraStore.
 Optionally you can adjust the keyspace name and replication settings.
-For production server, you would want to set replication_factor to 3.
+For production, you would want to set replication_factor to 3
+if there are at least 3 Cassandra servers.
 
 .. code-block:: bash