[infinispan-dev] Partial state transfer in Infinispan

We currently use JGroups' partial state transfer to transfer individual caches from one Infinispan instance to another. Since I got rid of partial state transfer in JGroups 3.0, and don't like to add it back, I'd like to know whether this is still needed. I thought that we currently require the same set of caches to be available in all Infinispan instances, and the reason (IIRC) was that distribution wouldn't work if we have caches 1 and 2 available on instances A and B, but not on C, because consistent hashing distributes the data based on views, and we didn't want to have to keep track of individual caches... Why are we actually using JGroups' state transfer with replication, but use our own state transfer with distribution ? Opinions ? -- Bela Ban Lead JGroups / Clustering Team JBoss