Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick Hunt
There are ways to dynamically update the cluster membership today, granted while they are dynamic they are not dynamic in the sense of 107: http://bit.ly/bTTdDK (see item 6) 107 is still pending. Henry was interested to implement this, I'm not sure his current status. Henry? I think this is a

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Henry Robinson
Hi - Yes, I'm still interested in this JIRA but it's a significant change to ZK which would be best suited for probably the 4.0 release. I have a rough implementation that 'works' but still leaves some issues unresolved. I don't have a great deal of time for this issue at the moment though, which

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Patrick Hunt
FYI, Ben has been working on Netty integration with ZooKeeper. One of the benefits of this is it provides encryption and certificate based connection auth - which would be a great way (cert) to solve some of the security issues highlighted in 107. So the pieces are there, interest is there,

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
FYI, Ben has been working on Netty integration with ZooKeeper. One of the benefits of this is it provides encryption and certificate based connection auth - which would be a great way (cert) to solve some of the security issues highlighted in 107. So the pieces are there, interest is there,

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Hariharan Subramanian
Thanks to all of you that responded. This feature is also important to the project I am working on. Although we would have to find someone with the right skills to contribute to it. Henry, Do you have an estimate on how long this task would take if someone were to start with your prototype?

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Henry Robinson
Hari - It's very difficult to say how long this would take. There are a number of issues that need to be resolved by design rather than code. For example, the question of finding the cluster when the membership has changed is unanswered. The changes to the core protocol will need substantial

Re: Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-18 Thread Flavio Junqueira
I think it would be good to have a design document, just to reason about it and make sure that the mechanism we are introducing is not flawed. It is easy to get these things wrong. -Flavio On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:30 PM, Henry Robinson wrote: Hari - It's very difficult to say how long this

Reg: Status of ZOOKEEPER-107 - Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership

2010-02-17 Thread Hariharan Subramanian
Dear Zookeeper community, I would like to know the status of issue ZOOKEEPER-107 (Allow dynamic changes to server cluster membership) which is assigned to Henry Robinson Is this the right forum to ask this question or should I post an update to the bug report? Thanks -- Hari -- --… …--