Re: [infinispan-dev] Proposal: ISPN-1394 Manual rehashing in 5.2
On 31 January 2012 16:06, Bela Ban <bban(a)redhat.com> wrote:
This is essentially what I suggested at the Lisbon meeting, right ?
Yes!
I think Dan had a design wiki on this somewhere...
Just rising it here as it was moved to 6.0, while I think it deserves
a dedicated thread to better think about it. If it's not hard, I think
it should be done sooner.
But while I started the thread to wake up the brilliant minds, I can't
volunteer for this to make it happen.
Sanne
On 1/31/12 4:53 PM, Sanne Grinovero wrote:
> I think this is an important feature to have soon;
>
> My understanding of it:
>
> We default with the feature off, and newly discovered nodes are
> added/removed as usual. With a JMX operatable switch, one can disable
> this:
>
> If a remote node is joining the JGroups view, but rehash is off: it
> will be added to a to-be-installed view, but this won't be installed
> until rehash is enabled again. This gives time to add more changes
> before starting the rehash, and would help a lot to start larger
> clusters.
>
> If the [self] node is booting and joining a cluster with manual rehash
> off, the start process and any getCache() invocation should block and
> wait for it to be enabled. This would need of course to override the
> usually low timeouts.
>
> When a node is suspected it's a bit a different story as we need to
> make sure no data is lost. The principle is the same, but maybe we
> should have two flags: one which is a "soft request" to avoid rehashes
> of less than N members (and refuse N>=numOwners ?), one which is just
> disable it and don't care: data might be in a cachestore, data might
> not be important. Which reminds me, we should consider as well a JMX
> command to flush the container to the CacheLoader.
>
> --Sanne
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Bela Ban
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JBoss / Red Hat
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