[bailey-developers] ddb protocols

[Doug C. <cu...@ap...>]

Ning,

This is looking great!  A few questions:

Should search results indicate the ranges actually searched?  That way, 
if the client's Mapper is out of date, the client can detect and repair 
this.

To repair, given a set of search results, we need to check for gaps, 
then figure out what to re-query to fill those gaps.  Should this be 
done through the Ring API?

Will host ids ever be other than an ipaddress+port?  Should we represent 
them that way instead?  Hosts are not on the ring, so we don't need a 
numeric value here.

Will node ids ever be other than a large (128 bit?) numeric value?  They 
need to be unique, but should be host-independent.  E.g., it should be 
possible to copy a node's data to a new host and have that new host 
start serving that data.

Doug