Parsing is done by TokenFactory.fromString, so yes, it matters per partitioner.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Mck <m...@apache.org> wrote: > And does it matter when using different partitoners? > > In the config it seems only strings are used. > In RP it parses this string into a BigInteger so it needs to be in > decimal format, > but for ByteOrderPartitioner it uses FBUtilities.hexToBytes(..) when > translating a string to a token (BytesToken). > > More to the point... > For a 3 node cluster using BOP where my largest token will be > 0x80000000000000000000000000000000 (coincidently 2**127) > should i write out initial_tokens like > > node0: 0 > node1: 2AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > node2: 55555555555555555555555555555554 > > or like > > node0: 0 > node1: 56713727820156410577229101238628035242 > node2: 113427455640312821154458202477256070484 > > > If it is the former there's some important documentation missing. > > ~mck > > > ps CASSANDRA-1006 seems to be of some relation. > > > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com
