The salt byte is the first byte in your row key and that's the max
value for a byte (i.e. it'll be 0-255).

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Krishna <research...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> According to Phoenix documentation
>
>> "Phoenix provides a way to transparently salt the row key with a salting
>> byte for a particular table. You need to specify this in table creation time
>> by specifying a table property “SALT_BUCKETS” with a value from 1 to 256"
>
>
> Is 256 the max value that SALT_BUCKETS can take? If yes, could someone
> explain the reason for this upper bound?
>
> Krishna
>

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