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Wouter de Bie commented on CASSANDRA-981:
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This stuff is actually more broken than I thought..

It only works with one keyspace, since the DynamicEndpointSnitchMBean is 
registered per keyspace, which is not allowed.

Next, the DynamicEndpointSnitch doesn't work with the RackAwareStrategy, since 
that one checks the following:

{noformat}
if (!(snitch instanceof EndPointSnitch))
            throw new IllegalArgumentException(("RackAwareStrategy requires 
EndPointSnitch."));
{noformat}

And breaks, since the DynamicEndPointSnitch extends AbstractEndpointSnitch and 
not EndPointSnitch. RackAwareStrategy should check for the interface 
IEndPointSnitch. 


> Dynamic endpoint snitch
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-981
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-981
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Brandon Williams
>             Fix For: 0.6.5
>
>         Attachments: 981-0.6.txt, 981-fix-v2.txt, 981-fix.txt, 981.txt
>
>
> An endpoint snitch that automatically and dynamically infers "distance" to 
> other machines without having to explicitly configure rack and datacenter 
> positions solves two problems:
> The killer feature here is adapting to things like compaction or a 
> failing-but-not-yet-dead disk.  This is important, since when we are doing 
> reads we pick the "closest" replica for actually reading data from (and only 
> read md5s from other replicas).  This means that if the closest replica by 
> network topology is temporarily slow due to compaction (for instance), we'll 
> have to block for its reply even if we get the other replies much much faster.
> Not having to manually re-sync your configuration with your network topology 
> when changes (adding machines) are made is a nice bonus.

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