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From: Jonathan Ellis <jbellis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:45:55 -0600
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Subject: Re: Why seed can't startup in Bootstrap mode ?
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:43 AM,  <mail.list.steel.mental@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, once a seed crash and damage it's data, we cannot wipe the node and
> re-bootstrap, because node cannot bootstrap if configured as seed.
> Also we can not re-configure node to a non-seed, because that will reduce
> total number of seeds,
> so eventually all old data will lost(one by one), or there is no seed(all
> seed was re-configure to non-seed).
>
> Am I right??

No. :)

You can re-designate nodes as seeds after bootstrapping, as I
mentioned in my first reply.

-Jonathan