AFAIK in the code the minimum exclusive value token is -1, so as a signed integer the maxmium value is 2**127
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 4/10/2012, at 3:19 AM, Carlos Pérez Miguel <cperez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Reading the wiki of operations > (http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/Operations) I noticed something > strange. When using RandomPartitioner, tokens are integers in the > range [0,2**127] (both limits included) but keys are converted into > this range using MD5. MD5 has 128 bits, so, tokens should not be in > the range [0, (2**128)-1]? > > Anyway, if Cassandra uses only 127 bits of that 128 bits because it > tries to convert this 128 bit into a signed int, tokens should not be > in the range [0, 2**127) (first limit included, last not included)? > > Thank you > > Carlos Pérez Miguel
