Re: [infinispan-dev] ISPN-263 and handling partitions

Yes, that's what we decided to do a long time ago... see policy based merge approach in the mailing lists. But the point of *this* discussion is not data reconciliation after a merge, but how to *avoid* that reconciliation by making conflicting minority partitions read only, such that a merge always transfers data from the primary partition to the minority partitions. This is not as easy as it sounds though; Dan mentioned the case where the primary partition is not the owner of a given key K. In this case, we cannot simply swipe the minority partition. Even worse, if K is created and modified in the primary partition, we have to reconcile K's value between the primary and minority partitions...