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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