Re: [infinispan-dev] DIST and rehashing - again

Ok, these rehash designs are flawed. While they work in concept, they could lock up a cluster for periods of time while a rehash is in progress, since every node may provide some state to every other node, and while state is being streamed, a recipient would need to queue incoming transactions to be applied on top of any state applied. While this will work very well if just one node receives state at at time, it won't work if (theoretically) every node receives some state (for example if a node leaves). I have an alternate approach (sketched out in a notebook here) which will mean some redesign to the core dist code, I will publish these on the wiki when I get back from vacation. In the meanwhile though, it means no Beta1 today (boo!) but I will push out an Alpha5 (yaayy!) since there are a lot of other changes and improvements which I want to make public. Watch this space. Cheers Manik On 8 Jun 2009, at 15:34, Manik Surtani wrote: -- Manik Surtani manik(a)jboss.org Lead, Infinispan Lead, JBoss Cache http://www.infinispan.org http://www.jbosscache.org