right On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Per Olesen <p...@trifork.com> wrote: > > On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ben Browning wrote: > >> 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. > > 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? > >
-- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com
