[CASSANDRA-3880] Random Partitioner does not check if tokens are outside of its range

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Severity: Low
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Marcel Steinbach
• Created: 09/Feb/12 09:28
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:32
• Resolved: 15/Feb/13 05:47

Description

Setting up a ring where the tokens are outside RP's token range leads to an unbalanced cluster. The partitioner still reports equally distributed ownership since it calculates ownership only with the distances of the tokens in relation to the maximum token.

E.g. maximum token = 15
token1 = 5
token2 = 10
token3 = 15
token4 = 20

ownership4 = (token4 - token3) / maximum_token = 5 / 15 = 1/3

So token4 claims to own 33.33% of the ring but is not responsible for any primary replicas.

Issue Links

• duplicates: CASSANDRA-3501 Move allows you to move to tokens > 2**127