> 14 okt 2014 kl. 12:51 skrev Andrzej Dębski <[email protected]>:
> 
> Thanks for the answers.
> 
> For now I went with taking most significant bits of java UUID and computing 
> modulus value  of it. I created the test to see how this scheme behaves in 
> terms of distribution and for now it is good enough for me.
> 
> I have one more question. Assuming I will do something like in the docs 
> (uuidValue % someNumber). someNumber determines the number of shards. This 
> means that I can have up to someNumber nodes in my cluster - any node that 
> will exceed someNumber will not be used because someNumber is too small. It 
> is some limitation in terms of scalability. 

The idea is that you use a big enough someNumber, e.g. 1000 when you plan to 
use around 100 nodes.

Note that you can change someNumber when you do a full restart of all nodes in 
the cluster.

/Patrik
> 
> I am wondering if someone tried to use some other scheme that would allow 
> some flexibility in terms of number of nodes - for example when we will have 
> as many nodes as someNumber the scheme will somehow change itself to be aware 
> of increased number of nodes?
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