AFAIK it's recommended to have two seed nodes per dc. Some info on seeds here http://www.datastax.com/docs/0.7/operations/clustering
You will need a restart. Aaron On 2/03/2011, at 6:08 AM, shan...@accenture.com wrote: > How many seed nodes should I have for a cluster of 100 nodes each with about > 500gb of data? Also to add seeds the nodes, must I change the seed nodes list > on all existing nodes through the Cassandra.yaml file? Will changes take > effect without restarting the node? > > > > Shan (Susie) Lu, Analyst > > Accenture Technology Labs - Silicon Valley > > cell +1 425.749.2546 > > email shan...@accenture.com > > > > > This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, > proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in > error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any > other use of the email by you is prohibited.