Makes sense. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Lynch [mailto:joe.e.ly...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 9:02 PM To: dev@cassandra.apache.org Subject: Re: MD5 in the read path
> > Thank you all for the response. > For RandomPartitioner, MD5 is used to avoid collision. However, why is > it necessary for comparing data between different replicas? Is it not > feasible to use CRC for data comparison? > My understanding is that it is not necessary to use MD5 and we can switch out the message digest function as long as we have an upgrade path. I believe this is the goal of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-13292. -Joey --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
