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. _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
