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From: Brandon Williams <driftx@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 22:10:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: distribution of token ranges with virtual nodes
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1990@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> it will migrate you to virtual nodes by splitting the existing partition
>> 256 ways.
>
>
> Out of curiosity, is it for the purpose of avoiding streaming?

It splits into a contiguous range, because truly upgrading to vnode
functionality is another step.

>
>>  the former would require you to perform a shuffle to achieve that.
>
>
> Is there a nodetool option or are there other ways "shuffle" could be done
> automatically?

There a shuffle command in bin/ that was recently committed, we'll
document this in process in NEWS.txt shortly.

-Brandon