On 3 May 2010 16:40, Dave Wright <wrig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Should this be a znode in the privileged namespace? > > > > I think having a znode for the current cluster members is part of the > ZOOKEEPER-107 proposal, with the idea being that you could get/set the > membership just by writing to that node. On the client side, you could > watch that znode and update your server list when it changes. >
This is tricky: what happens if the server your client is connected to is decommissioned by a view change, and you are unable to locate another server to connect to because other view changes committed while you are reconnecting have removed all the servers you knew about. We'd need to make sure that watches on this znode were fired before a view change, but it's hard to know how to avoid having to wait for a session timeout before a client that might just be migrating servers reappears in order to make sure it sees the veiw change. Even then, the problem of 'locating' the cluster still exists in the case that there are no clients connected to tell anyone about it. Henry -- Henry Robinson Software Engineer Cloudera 415-994-6679
