ring resizing feature?

2013-09-18 Thread pseudo-nyme
(over the long term) the necessity of resizing the ring (in order to double the number of partitions) seems unavoidable to me. On Github, the v1.4 changelog seems to indicate that the ring resizing feature is now merged in the release (notably from riak-core#301); however, the official documentation

Re: ring resizing feature?

2013-09-18 Thread Jordan West
Hey PN, I'm the engineer at Basho working on Ring Resizing, primarily. I've left some comments inline. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:46 AM, pseudo-n...@laposte.net wrote: Dear all, After a quick glimpse at Riak, I must say I like it: DHT with masterless design and gossiping protocol, that is

ring resizing feature?

2013-09-18 Thread pseudo-nyme
the long term) the necessity of resizing the ring (in order to double the number of partitions) seems unavoidable to me. On Github, the v1.4 changelog seems to indicate that the ring resizing feature is now merged in the release (notably from riak-core#301); however, the official documentation

Re: ring resizing feature?

2013-09-18 Thread Alexander Sicular
That's about the rights of it. As I was reading your message I did some quick math and sure enough you already put that same number down. I've heard told that the max size for any Erlang network, of which Riak is most assuredly, is 200 Erlang VM's. Extrapolating from there, considering that