Ah, right. Unfortunately the old google groups for Cassandra are deleted, hence the broken links.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 4:06 AM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Doesn't ring a bell. Maybe if you included the link to which you refer? > > I guess this is the related post > http://spyced.blogspot.com/2009/05/consistent-hashing-vs-order-preserving.html > > thought I believe the original poster misphrased or misread (the hack > in question was assigning multiple tokens to nodes for load balancing, > which cassandra does not). > > The two links in the second paragraph are broken, I remember this > cause I had been curious to read them too :) > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support http://riptano.com