On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Anthony Molinaro <antho...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: > So why is Token - 1 better? Doesn't that result in more data movement > than PreviousTokenInRing + 1?
No, because a node is responsible for (previous token, own token]. So if you introduce token T-1 before token T then the only keys the old node will be responsible for would be one corresponding exactly to T. >> You could use scp-then-repair if you can tolerate slightly out of date >> data being served by the new machine until the repair finishes. > > So with scp-then-repair, what would my config look like? Would I specify > the InitialToken as the same as the old token, but have AutoBootstrap > set to false? Right.
