On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, aaron morton <aa...@thelastpickle.com> wrote: > Even if the node is only > responsible for a small about of the ring, it would normally still get data > handed to it and read from it as a replica. You would need to use a Replica > Placement Strategy that knew it ignore the "connection only" nodes. > IMHO it's a bad idea: Single point of failure, wasted compute resources, > imbalance between "connection" and "worker" nodes.
As I understand what is being proposed, the node could only be responsible for a single token, and presumably would perform very well indeed when reading or writing that token. I don't see why you would need to avoid placing a single token's worth of data on a node, or why it would become a single point of failure if you did.. is there something I'm missing.. ? =Rob
