What would comprise a sane and reasonably balanced list?  Should there be a
certain proportion of seeds per total nodes?  Any other considerations
besides a) list must be identical on all nodes and b) you can't
auto-bootstrap a seed node?

I'm new to thinking about this setting, but it sounds like this discussion
may be approaching some best-practice guidelines.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The gossip-to-seed each round is to prevent cluster partitions, so if
> you're following correct procedure and making every node's seed list
> identical, then any potential new nodes gossiping to one of the old seeds
> means it is still harmless for old nodes not to gossip to the new one until
> the next restart.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Aaron Morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
>
>> Ryan,
>> I've not checked with the code but the wiki docs for the Gossip Protocol
>> say it makes use of the seed list.
>> http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip
>>
>> During each gossip round a node will try to gossip to one seed node.
>>
>> Which made me think keeping the list sane and reasonably balanced was a
>> good idea. Obviously would not matter too much on a small cluster though.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On 08 Dec, 2010,at 07:16 AM, Ryan King <r...@twitter.com> wrote:
>>
>> Note that there's not really anything special about the seed node and its
>> all relative– the cluster doesn't necessarily have to agreed on who the
>> seeds are.
>>
>> So, to bring up a new node to replace the old seed, just set the new
>> node's seed to any existing node in the system. After that you can go back
>> and make the setting consistent across the cluster.
>>
>> -ryan
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Nick Bailey <n...@riptano.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, cassandra only reads the configuration when it starts up. However
>>> seed nodes are only used when a node starts. After that they aren't needed.
>>> There should be no reason to restart your cluster after adding a seed node
>>> to  your cluster.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:09 AM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> You will need to restart the nodes for them to pickup changes in
>>>> cassandra.yaml
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Aaron
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 Dec 2010, at 16:32, lei liu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Nick.
>>>>
>>>> After I add the new node as seed node in the configuration for all of my
>>>> nodes, do I need to restart all of my nodes?
>>>>
>>>> 2010/12/7 Nick Bailey <n...@riptano.com>
>>>>
>>>>> The node can be set as a seed node at any time. It does not need to be
>>>>> a seed node when it joins the cluster. You should remove it as a seed 
>>>>> node,
>>>>> set autobootstrap to true and let it join the cluster. Once it has joined
>>>>> the cluster you should add it as a seed node in the configuration for all 
>>>>> of
>>>>> your nodes.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 9:59 AM, lei liu <liulei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank Jonathan for your reply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How  can I bootstrap the node into cluster, I know if the node is seed
>>>>>> node, I can't set AutoBootstrap to true.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2010/12/6 Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> set it as a seed _after_ bootstrapping it into the cluster.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at t5:01 AM, lei liu <liulei...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> > After one seed node crash, I want to add one node as seed node, I
>>>>>>> set
>>>>>>> > auto_bootstrap to true, but the new node don't migrate data from
>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>> > node s.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > How can I add one new seed node and let the node to migrate data
>>>>>>> from other
>>>>>>> > nodes?
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Thanks,
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > LiuLei
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Jonathan Ellis
>>>>>>> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
>>>>>>> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
>>>>>>> http://riptano.com
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Ellis
> Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
> co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support
> http://riptano.com
>



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