Re: [bailey-developers] lattice master

[Yonik S. <yo...@ap...>]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@ap...> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Ning Li <nin...@gm...> wrote:
>  >  I'm confused with which is clockwise and which is counter-clockwise now. :(
>
>  I noticed the switch, too.  It just depends if your reference is the
>  node or the key.
>  a doc that falls on node A will be replicated in B and C (that's
>  clockwise, like dynamo).
>  If you are looking for a replica of C, it will be at A and B
>  (counter-clockwise).

Ignore this previous part, I think I confused myself :-)

>  I don't think it really matters what the direction ends up being
>  though.  A node will be replicated to N unique hosts in a consistent
>  (but arbitrary) direction.
>
>  Personally, it makes more sense to thing of it as HostA containing
>  NodeA, NodeB, NodeC (or IndexA, IndexB, IndexC).  It's replicas of
>  nodes rather than overlapping ranges.
>
>  -Yonik
>