On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> > As a potential approach, would it be possible for a node to incrementally > acquire tokens, and as a result incrementally stream? You could have a > node serving requests after acquiring 1 token, and it would gradually take > ownership of more and more of the ring as it bootstraps. Yes, it's definitely theoretically possible. The main hurdle is adding support for "bootstrapping" a single token to gossip. Gossips is unfortunately fairly inflexible, so this would probably be a little tricky, and would mostly likely have to target 3.1. -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>