On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Jun Rao <[email protected]> wrote: > > If the partitioner maps String->token, then the load balancer can be > oblivious to the partitioner and do the balancing by reassigning tokens to > EndPoint. On the other hand, if the partitioner maps String->EndPoint, then > the load balancer has to tell the partitioner that it has changed some of > the decision the partitioner already made. How will this work?
The partitioner maps Token -> EndPoint. (And Key -> Token.) So like I said, I'm not sure exactly how load balancing will work but it will be token-agnostic. -Jonathan
