On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:22 PM, David Nickerson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ted: Thanks for the answer. The quorum of four servers was hypothetical;
> our business has not incorporated ZooKeeper yet.
Ahh..
> Also, I would imagine that this solution wouldn't work for two servers,
> because we'd lose the quorum?
It would work fine. Start the new server first. Then update the two existing
servers.
This shouldn't occur, however, because you don't normally have an even number
>
> Jordan: Thanks for the link, that looks like it'll be very helpful.
>
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Jordan Zimmerman
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> FYI - have a look at our Exhibitor system which makes upgrades/additions
>> easier to manage.
>>
>> https://github.com/Netflix/exhibitor
>>
>>
>> On 6/18/12 11:26 AM, "Ted Dunning" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. Updating and restarting works fine.
>>>
>>> One does wonder why you have *four* servers now. That generally doesn't
>>> provide any advantage over having three servers.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:28 AM, David Nickerson <
>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Say I have a quorum of four ZooKeeper servers. Is there any way I can
>>>> add a
>>>> fifth ZooKeeper to the quorum without interrupting the service? I see
>>>> some
>>>> work on making it easy
>>>> here<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-107>and
>>>> here<
>>>>
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ZOOKEEPER/ClusterMembership
>>> ,
>>>> but I'm wondering if there's currently any way to do it at all. Would it
>>>> work to start up the fifth pointing to all of the others, then
>>>> one-by-one
>>>> restart the others, updating their configuration to include the fifth?
>>>>
>>
>>
