ketama - a consistent hashing algo for memcache clients

[Christian Muehlhaeuser]

On 4/11/07, Dustin Sallings <dustin at spy.net> wrote:
>         It might be interesting, in this case, to send a delete for a given
> key to the next node in the continuum whenever performing a mutation
> operation on the node responsible for a key.  Perhaps this would be
> appropriate whenever a node is considered ``new.''

yeah, this is exactly what i meant with "invalidate the key when
re-assigning a server to a it". i've put it on my todo list for now.

cheers,
muesli