What is the difference between a boot server and an ordinary node?
Scalaris has two types of nodes: • a boot server and • a Scalaris node. Formerly the boot-server was required to add new nodes to the system, hence its name. Today the boot-server only maintains a list of all Scalaris nodes in the system and provides a web-interface for debugging including different plots of the ring. It has no administrative tasks. A ring could be created without one. Note that for historical reasons ./bin/boot.sh starts an Erlang VM with both, a boot server and a Scalaris node which is marked as the first node.
