Re: [infinispan-dev] [ISPN-78] Feedback needed

Am 15.04.11 17:01, schrieb Manik Surtani: > On 10 Apr 2011, at 21:07, Olaf Bergner wrote: > >> Keep in mind that so far I have completely ignored the issue of >> supporting transactions when reading and writing large objects. I would >> prefer to have a working core implementation before tackling the more >> complicated aspects. > > How do you maintain consistency without transactions? E.g., Concurrent readers and a writer? > > Concurrent writers isn't a problem since we don't support this, however we may be able to add some kind of concurrent write support if we consider the streams as append-only. I never meant to actually *publish* large object support without mechanisms ensuring consistency in place.

Yet I would prefer to have most of the other issues - what should the official API's first iteration look like?, is the approach I've taken so far basically sane? and so forth - sorted before moving on to the more complicated aspects. So far, it took some time to get used to the code base and acquire *some* knowledge about INFINISPAN's inner workings, but it hasn't been exactly rocket science. Just a lot of work. Ensuring consistency, however, won't probably be that easy. Especially since I only have a very shallow understanding of INFINISPAN's transaction support's inner workings.