On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Stu Hood <stu.h...@rackspace.com> wrote: >> The HH code currently tries to send the hints to nodes other than the >> natural endpoints. If small-scale performance is a problem, we could >> make the natural endpoints be responsible for the hints. This reduces >> durability a bit, but might be a decent tradeoff. > The other interesting benefit is that the hint would not need to store the > actual content of the change, since the natural endpoints will already be > storing copies. The hints would just need to encode the fact that a given > (key,name1[,name2]) changed.
Right, I think that's what Ryan was getting at.
