That's a pity, as, if the number of physical hosts is not also a power of two, 
some number of records will reside on fewer than n_val physical hosts.

Cheers,
John

On Jan 19, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Sean Cribbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> The ring size must be a power of two because it must evenly divide 2^160 (the 
> size of our consistent hashing space), which is not divisible by 3. Using a 
> non-power-of-two ring size will have unknown or unpredictable effects.


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