I think this may have been discussed before, but I cannot find any reference to it. Just wanted to confirm how cassandra.yaml is used after the cluster is initialised.
Start a clean install of 0.7b1, use jconsole to import the schema from yaml. Drain the node and shut it down, then remove the cassandra.yaml file from /conf. Try to start the node and it fails with... ERROR 00:11:57,088 Fatal error: Cannot locate cassandra.yaml on the classpath Bad configuration; unable to start server Put the file back and I get WARN 00:16:32,367 Schema definitions were defined both locally and in cassandra.yaml. Definitions in cassandra.yaml were ignored. Similar situation if the yaml file is invalid. If the yaml file is ignored, is it right that it has to be there ? If so should I update http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/FAQ#no_keyspaces and/or http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/LiveSchemaUpdates ? Thanks Aaron
