On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Donald Smith < donald.sm...@audiencescience.com> wrote:
> Is there any harm from having all the nodes listed in the seeds list in > cassandra.yaml? > Yes, seed nodes cannot bootstrap. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-5836 See comments there for details on how this actually doesn't make any sense. The "correct" solution is almost certainly to have a dynamic seed provider, which is why DSE and Priam both do that. But in practice it mostly doesn't matter except in the annoying yet common CASSANDRA-5836 case. =Rob