Hi, I don't know about Cassandra configuration, but you can avoid having to restart the cluster by changing the Whirr Cassandra scripts before launch. See http://incubator.apache.org/whirr/faq.html#How_can_I_modify_the_instance_installation_and_configuration_scripts
Cheers, Tom On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Khanh Nguyen <nguyen.h.kh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm struggling to set up a cassandra cluster with > ByteOrderedPartitioner using whirr. (I'm not sure if the issue is > caused by Cassandra or Whirr so I cc-ed both lists). > > Here are the steps I took > > - use whirr to lauch a cassandra (version 0.8) cluster > - ssh into each instances and do > 1) kill cassandra > 2) edit "partitioner" field in cassandra.yaml from > "org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner" to > "org.apache.cassandra.dht.ByteOrderedPartitioner" > 3) edit 'JMX_PORT" in cassandra-env.sh from 7199 to 8080 (whirr bind > JMX to port 8080) > 3) delete "/var/lib/cassandra/data" > 4) run cassandra again > > in the end, I got my cluster back but when I do 'describe cluster' > inside cassandra-cli, it shows the cluster is still running > RandomPartitioner. What am I missing? Thanks. > > Regards, > > -k >
