Comment 6 for bug 738235

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Brian Aker (brianaker) wrote : Re: [Bug 738235] Re: Update from murmur2 to murmur3 hash.

Hi!

On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bob Vincent wrote:

> Can you explain, or point me to an explanation, as to how this works?

When someone upgrades the driver they already have servers in place which are storing data. If the hash changes they won't be able to find their data.

> Also, what is the relationship between the hash used in libmemcached and
> the hash used in memcached?

Libmemcached does all mapping, the hash inside of memcached is just for storage in the hash table.

Cheers,
 -Brian