> > Thank you all for the response. > For RandomPartitioner, MD5 is used to avoid collision. However, why is it > necessary for comparing data between different replicas? Is it not feasible > to use CRC for data comparison? > My understanding is that it is not necessary to use MD5 and we can switch out the message digest function as long as we have an upgrade path. I believe this is the goal of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13292.
-Joey
