Thanks Justin. It should be relatively straightforward to work around this current limitation in our ops plan.
As a sidenote, given that Dynamo forms the basis for much of Riak's design, I think that it would be beneficial to publish a document outlining the design differences between these systems. Best, Michael On 2010-08-21, at 11:24 AM, Justin Sheehy wrote: > Hi, Michael. > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Michael Russo <mjru...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In the Dynamo design, the number of vnodes per physical node can be tweaked >> to satisfy the heterogeneity principle. > >> Is there any way to do something similar with Riak? > > This is something that we think is an important idea, and that the > underlying structure of Riak can work fine with. However, simply out > of prioritization thus far we have not yet made it easy to do this and > doing so effectively is not simple from a user point of view. I do > not know of any production clusters at this time that use anything > other than the standard near-equal distribution of vnodes. > > I do expect that explicitly configuring different nodes to have > different "weight" will be enabled in a future release, but it is not > currently on anyone's scheduled plans that I know of. > > -Justin _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
