Of course! why didn't i think of that? Thanks!! On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Edward Capriolo wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Colby > <jonathan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi - >> >> If a seed crashes (i.e., suddenly unavailable due to HW problem), what is >> the best way to replace the seed in the cluster? >> >> I've read that you should not bootstrap a seed. Therefore I came up with >> this procedure, but it seems pretty complicated. any better ideas? >> >> 1. update the seed list on all nodes, taking out the dead node and restart >> the nodes in the cluster so the new seed list is updated >> 2. then bootstrap the new (replacement ) node as a normal node (not yet as >> a seed) >> 3. when bootstrapping is done, make the new node a seed. >> 4. update the seed list again adding back the replacement seed (and rolling >> restart the cluster as in step 1) >> >> >> That seems to me like a whole lot of work. Surely there is a better way? >> >> Jon > > It is true that Seeds do not auto bootstrap. But in this case it does > not matter if the other nodes believe this node is a seed. It only > matters what the joining node is configured to believe. > > On the joining node do not include it's hostname/IP in the seed list > and it should auto-bootstrap normally.
