On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> The advantage to doing it the way Cassandra does is that you can keep >> keys sorted with OrderPreservingPartitioner for range scans. grabbing >> one token of many from each node in the ring would prohibit that. >> >> So we rely on active load balancing to get to a "good enough" balance, >> say within 50%. It doesn't need to be perfect. > > Isn't this also only a real [issue with] small clusters?
Right, good point.
