Re: [infinispan-dev] StressTest: why removals are not working as expected

Galder Zamarreno wrote: > I've replicated this in > https://svn.jboss.org/repos/infinispan/trunk/core/src/test/java/org/infin... > > When we call getFirstNonOwner("k1").put("k1", "value"); apart from > replicating k1 to the owners of k1, it also resides in the non owner. > So, when we call getOwners("k1")[0].remove("k1");, it will only > remove > it from those nodes where k1 is owner. The end result is that a > non-owner ends up with k1. > > The fix for this does not seem trivial: You either, avoid non-owners > storing data in the cache if DIST and !L1, or when !L1, do a cluster > wide removal. For me, the fix is clear: a non-owner must never store a key ! Or else we defy the purpose of DIST and have too many copies of data in a grid !