Hi Ben Well, im just wondering why the server's own unique IP-address isn't good enough as a valid identifyer; it strikes me to be a bit exhausting to manually set the id for each server in the cluster. Or maybe there is some details im not getting here :-)
Regards, Orjan On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Benjamin Reed <br...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > can you clarify what you are asking for? are you just looking for > motivation? or are you trying to find out how to use it? > > the myid file just has the unique identifier (number) of the server in the > cluster. that number is matched against the id in the configuration file. > there isn't much to say about it: > http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.2.1/zookeeperStarted.html > > ben > > Ørjan Horpestad wrote: >> >> Hi! >> Can someone pin-point me to a site (or please explain ) where I can >> read about the use of the myid-file for configuring the id of the >> ZooKeeper servers? >> I'm sure there is a good reason for using this approach, but it is the >> first time I have come over this type of non-automatic way for >> administrating replicas. >> >> Regards, Orjan >> > >
