[infinispan-dev] [ISPN-78] Alternative interface for writing large objects

[Dan Berindei]

>
>> > 3. The design suggests to use a fresh UUID as the key for each new
>> > chunk. While this in all likelihood gives us a unique new key for each
>> > chunk I currently fail to see how that guarantees that this key maps to
>> > a node that is different from all the nodes already used to store chunks
>> > of the same Large Object. But then again I know next to nothing about
>> > Infinispan's constant hashing algorithm.
>>
>> I think there's a service that will generate a key mapped to particular
>> node, so that might be a better option here to avoid all chunks going to the
>> same node. I think Mircea might be able to help further with this.
>
> Implemented a workaround in the meantime. Would be fab if such a service existed. Haven't found it yet.
>

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Keyaffinityservice ?

Cheers
Dan