On 24 Sep 2012, at 11:23, Manik Surtani wrote:

That would involve several things:

1.  A change in the wire protocol (so not going to happen so quickly!)
2.  The "old" cluster to know the new cluster's topology information, to be able to push this to clients.

Possible, and would definitely do good things for user experience, but IMO can be added later as second phase.
+1 

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Mircea Markus
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