The idea behind 'myid'

Hi! Can someone pin-point me to a site (or please explain ) where I can read about the use of the myid-file for configuring the id of the ZooKeeper servers? I'm sure there is a good reason for using this approach, but it is the first time I have come over this type of non-automatic way for

Re: The idea behind 'myid'

the id in the configuration file. there isn't much to say about it: http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.2.1/zookeeperStarted.html ben Ørjan Horpestad wrote: Hi! Can someone pin-point me to a site (or please explain ) where I can read about the use of the myid-file for configuring the id