For ease of maintenance and because we'll likely have many deployments where the cluster size is very small (2 - 5 nodes), I'm wondering if I can set my seed_provider list to contain all nodes except the local node's IP. ie) For nodes A-C A-> B, C B-> A, C C-> A, B
I think my question is more or less In line with this comment, I'm wondering if satisfying ONLY 2) is safe: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5836?focusedCommentId=13727032 Datastax docs suggest that "every node should have the same list of seeds", and also "To prevent partitions in gossip communications, use the same list of seed nodes in all nodes in a cluster". I wouldn't end up with gossip partitions in the example above, so if that's the only reason for the recommendation of keeping the list consistent across all nodes then it should be ok. Reading other comments regarding the seed list / bootstrapping, I *think* this will be ok but would appreciate confirmation/comments. My goal is to have all nodes auto-bootstrap. When adding a new node, I don't want to do 2 edits to the config file (first start without node as seed, then add node as seed). thanks Anne
