Because it's hooking directly into gossip, so the local instance it's ignoring is the bulkloader process, not Cassandra.
You'd need to run the bulkloader from a different IP, than Cassandra. On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Stephen Pope <stephen.p...@quest.com> wrote: > Fair enough. My original question stands then. :) > > Why aren't you allowed to talk to a local installation using BulkLoader? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Ellis [mailto:jbel...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 11:06 AM > To: user@cassandra.apache.org > Subject: Re: BulkLoader > > Sure, that will work fine with a single machine. The advantage of > bulkloader is it handles splitting the sstable up and sending each > piece to the right place(s) when you have more than one. > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Stephen Pope <stephen.p...@quest.com> wrote: >> I think I've solved my own problem here. After generating the sstable using >> json2sstable it looks like I can simply copy the created sstable into my >> data directory. >> >> Can anyone think of any potential problems with doing it this way? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Stephen Pope [mailto:stephen.p...@quest.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 9:32 AM >> To: user@cassandra.apache.org >> Subject: BulkLoader >> >> I'm trying to figure out how to use the BulkLoader, and it looks like >> there's no way to run it against a local machine, because of this: >> >> Set<InetAddress> hosts = Gossiper.instance.getLiveMembers(); >> hosts.remove(FBUtilities.getLocalAddress()); >> if (hosts.isEmpty()) >> throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot load any sstable, >> no live member found in the cluster"); >> >> Is this intended behavior? May I ask why? We'd like to be able to run it >> against the local machine. >> >> Cheers, >> Steve >> > > > > -- > Jonathan Ellis > Project Chair, Apache Cassandra > co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support > http://www.datastax.com > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
