The best, technical description of the ring was written by the person who had the biggest role in writing it for swift: http://www.tlohg.com/p/building-consistent-hashing-ring.html --John -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4207 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack/attachments/20120106/b61a7e5e/attachment.bin>