[Gluster-devel] EHT / DHT

[Anand Avati]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Jeff Darcy <jdarcy at redhat.com> wrote:

>  (Personally I would have
> done this by "mixing in" the parent GFID to the hash calculation, but
> that alternative was ignored.)
>

Actually when DHT was implemented, the concept of GFID did not (yet) exist.
Due to backward compatibility it has just remained this way even later.
Including the GFID into the hash has benefits.
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