I can't explain the technical reason why it's not advisable to bootstrap a seed. However, from what I've read you would bootstrap the node as a non-seed first, then add it as seed once it has finished bootstrapping.
On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:30 PM, mcasandra wrote: > in yaml: > # Set to true to make new [non-seed] nodes automatically migrate data > # to themselves from the pre-existing nodes in the cluster. > > Why only non-seed nodes? What if seed nodes need to bootstrap? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/auto-bootstrap-tp6254993p6254993.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com.
