Re: propagation of bucket properties to new nodes

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Reverri
Hi David, Alexander is correct, bucket properties are gossiped across the cluster. If the backend property has been set for a bucket, any new nodes added to the cluster will learn about that backend setting. A few notes about multi backend: 1. I found a couple of issues with the current multi bac

Re: propagation of bucket properties to new nodes

2010-08-24 Thread Alexander Sicular
Hi David, AFAIK, bucket properties are shared via gossip chatter. That is why it is recommended that you modify the bucket defaults via the config file if you are going to have a lot of buckets with different params from the default. Bucket properties and the backends that buckets use are diffe

propagation of bucket properties to new nodes

2010-08-24 Thread David Weldon
Do bucket properties get propagated to new riak nodes? For example, if I have 3 nodes, and on each I called riak_client:set_bucket/2, then I add a 4th node - does the new node know all of the existing bucket properties (n_val, allow_mult, etc.)? In particular, I'd like to know if the 'backend' prop