if you want to get your feet wet in the cassandra code base, these issues are a good place to start:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-212 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-311 I tried to add instructions to each showing what you'd need to do. I'd be sad to go do them myself now after all that writing. :) (or if there is another issue that you would like to take a stab at if only you knew where to start, I'm happy to be of assistance!) -Jonathan
