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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-665:
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If you know of a good way to get unique ids in less than 32 bits (the size of 
an ipv4 address) then great.  But even a MAC address alone is 48 bits so I'm 
not sure that's a reasonable thing to hope for. :)

> Persist token ring across cluster restarts
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-665
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-665
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.9
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> This prevents users from shooting their foot by shutting down a cluster, then 
> restarting it with a subset of the former nodes.

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