Seeds will not auto-bootstrap themselves when you add them to the cluster.
Normal approach is to have 2 or 3 per DC. You may also be interested in how Gossip uses the seed list http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/ArchitectureGossip cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 25/09/2011, at 8:28 PM, Philippe wrote: > Hello, > > I'm deploying my cluster with Puppet so it's actually easier for me to add > all cassandra nodes to the seed list in the YAML file than to choose a few. > Would there be any reason NOT to do this ? > > Thanks
