Hi Prasenjit, I don't see the need to recalculate anything. One key has a one MD5 hash, it doesn't change. Just use the hash to select a node, than just the plain key. Can you elaborate on the redistribution please?
Regards, P. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM, prasenjit mukherjee <prasen....@gmail.com> wrote: > The probem could be while redistributing the tokens. In that case the > hashes has to be recalculated on each fo the candidate node. > > -Thanks, > Prasenjit > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Patrik Modesto > <patrik.mode...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I know that RandomPartitioner does MD5 of a key and the MD5 is then >> used for key distribution AND key ordering. I was just wondering if >> it's possible to have RandomPartitioner just for key distribution and >> OrderedPartitioner just for per-node key ordering. That would solve >> the often requested key scan feature. >> >> Regards, >> Patrik
