On 20 Feb 2012, at 20:20, Vladimir Blagojevic wrote:
On 12-02-20 4:15 PM, Manik Surtani wrote:
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> Well, if you assign a set of tasks to specific nodes based on a consistent hash, the
topology then changes, you'd lose the information on where you sent specific tasks.
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True, but do we need to care about that? If a task fails due to node going down we just
need to detect such occurrence and migrate a task to a back up node!
Yes. As long as you have taken this into account in your design.
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