Okay. Cool actually. That clears up quite a bit for me :) On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Jonathan Ellis wrote:
> right > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Per Olesen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jun 9, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Ben Browning wrote: >> >>> There really aren't "seed nodes" in a Cassandra cluster. When you >>> specify a seed in a node's configuration it's just a way to let it >>> know how to find the other nodes in the cluster. A node functions the >>> same whether it is another node's seed or not. In other words, all of >>> the nodes in a cluster are functionally identical - no masters, no >>> slaves, no seeds, etc. >> >> Okay. So, for a node A to function as a seed for other node B, the node A >> does NOT have to be started with a storage-conf that mentions itself as a >> seed. Only thing for node A to be a seed for B is that B mentions A as a >> seed in its storage-conf? >> >> >
