Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 43318 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2010 19:34:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 9 Jun 2010 19:34:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 14862 invoked by uid 500); 9 Jun 2010 19:34:41 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-cassandra-user-archive@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 14846 invoked by uid 500); 9 Jun 2010 19:34:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@cassandra.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@cassandra.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@cassandra.apache.org Received: (qmail 14838 invoked by uid 99); 9 Jun 2010 19:34:41 -0000 Received: from nike.apache.org (HELO nike.apache.org) (192.87.106.230) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:34:41 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.0 required=10.0 tests=SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [77.66.16.98] (HELO mail91.trifork.com) (77.66.16.98) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:34:34 +0000 Received: from MAIL01.interprise.dk (172.22.200.1) by MAIL91.interprise.dk (172.22.200.10) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.247.2; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:34:12 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.35] (90.184.68.213) by smtp.trifork.com (172.22.110.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.213.0; Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:34:10 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1078) Subject: Re: Seeds and AutoBoostrap From: Per Olesen In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:34:12 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <1C02D040F8560347822BE76ECDB76A18408F94B288@MAIL01.interprise.dk> To: "user@cassandra.apache.org" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org Okay. Cool actually. That clears up quite a bit for me :) On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > right >=20 > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Per Olesen wrote: >>=20 >> On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ben Browning wrote: >>=20 >>> There really aren't "seed nodes" in a Cassandra cluster. When you >>> specify a seed in a node's configuration it's just a way to let it >>> know how to find the other nodes in the cluster. A node functions = the >>> same whether it is another node's seed or not. In other words, all = of >>> the nodes in a cluster are functionally identical - no masters, no >>> slaves, no seeds, etc. >>=20 >> Okay. So, for a node A to function as a seed for other node B, the = node A does NOT have to be started with a storage-conf that mentions = itself as a seed. Only thing for node A to be a seed for B is that B = mentions A as a seed in its storage-conf? >>=20 >>=20 >=20