Moving key hashing into the client

Tomash Brechko tomash.brechko at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 14:24:09 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 08:52:07 -0500, Brad Oaks wrote:
> I don't believe the server computes a hash at all for the purposes of
> determining on what machine the key will be stored.  I believe that
> *all* of this happens on the client side and that the servers don't
> "know" about one another in any regard.

I mean the server computes some hash value to decide where the key
belongs in server's hash table.  I.e. it is how the server finds the
key in its memory.


-- 
   Tomash Brechko


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