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.