[infinispan-dev] KeyAffinityService

[Mircea Markus]

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On 14 Jun 2013, at 20:08, Dan Berindei <dan.berindei at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to be clear, KAS doesn't really allow you to pin a key to a certain node. It only gives you a key that maps to the given node the moment you called KAS.getKeyForAddress(Address) - by the time you call cache.put() with the "pinned" key, it may have already moved to a different node.

This can only happen if there is a topology change going on in between KAS call and the put. Or more generically, if there's a topology change at a further point in time the key2node aasociation may be lost.