so can you not simply leverage a strategy that replicates data between "racks" and at some point in the future when you move to multi-dc upgrade the replication strategy to maintain the current replication and add in some replication between DC's ... ?
i'll go re-read your posts to see if you've already tried this. I vaguely remember Ellis saying it's not a good idea to switch NetworkTopologyStrategy ... On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, William Oberman <ober...@civicscience.com> wrote: > Thanks Sasha. Fortunately/unfortunately I did realize the default & current > behavior of the Ec2Snitch, but my application isn't multi-region capable > (yet), so I need to get intra-region redundancy. And having a > SingleRegionEc2Snitch that did DC=ec2zone and RACK=??? would be much better > for me (for now).