Re: Cassandra Chef recipe and EC2 snitch

2010-07-25 Thread Benjamin Black
the link mentions an ec2snitch, but i don't. the cookbook can just generate property files for the propertysnitch (which i much prefer to the use of a dedicated snitch). the algorithm for decided locality is at least as dumb as the one in the rack-aware snitch. on the plus side, it's just a litt

Re: Cassandra Chef recipe and EC2 snitch

2010-07-22 Thread Dave Viner
You don't need the ec2snitch necessarily. AFAIK, It's meant to be a "better" way of detecting where your ec2 instances are. But, unless you're popping instances all the time, I don't think it's worth it. Check out the step-by-step guide on that same page. Pure EC2 api calls to setup your cluste

Cassandra Chef recipe and EC2 snitch

2010-07-22 Thread Allan Carroll
Hi all, I'm setting up a new cluster on EC2 for the first time and looking at the wiki cloud setup page (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/CloudConfig). There's a chef recipe linked there that mentions an ec2snitch. The link doesn't seem to go where it says it does. Does anyone know where those