Excellent. Let me know what I can do to help.

-Greg
On Thursday, May 26, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Justin Sheehy wrote: 
> Hi, Greg.
> 
> Thanks for your thoughtful analysis and the pull request.
> 
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Greg Nelson <gro...@dropcam.com> wrote:
> 
> > However, the skipping bit isn't part of
> > Riak's preflist calculation. Instead, nodes claim partitions in such a way
> > as to be spaced out by target_n_val, to obviate the need for skipping.
> 
> A fun bit of history here: once upon a time, Riak's claiming worked in
> the same way as described by Amazon, with "skipping" and all. We
> noticed that this approach caused a different set of operational
> difficulties when hinted handoff due to node outages was occurring at
> the same time as a membership change. That prompted changes to the
> claim algorithm, which we still consider an area deserving of active
> improvement.
> 
> Multiple people will be reading, analyzing, and testing your work to
> contribute to this improvement. We very much appreciate your efforts,
> and want to make sure that we incorporate them in the best possible
> way.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Justin
> 
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