FYI - management of the myid file and zoo.cfg is one of the raison d'etre of Netflix Exhibitor: https://github.com/Netflix/exhibitor
On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Matthias Ogden <[email protected]> wrote: > The "myid" file is currently causing me a fair bit of grief because I have > to manually create the file on each host in my cluster. > > Is there a philosophical reason why it wouldn't be possible to change > ZooKeeper to support a command-line argument instead of the myid file? Then > I could provide custom launch args to each instance while leaving the host > bootstrapping alone.
