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  1. JGroups
  2. JGRP-1541

PDC: persist discovery responses

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    • Feature Request
    • Resolution: Done
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    • 3.3
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    Description

      When we use TCPPING.initial_hosts=A, and have nodes A, B and C, then the following can happen:

      • A is started. The view is {A}
      • B is started, finds A and joins the cluster. The view is {A,B}
      • C is started, finds A and joins the cluster. The view is now {A,B,C}
      • A is killed. The view is now {B,C}
      • C is restarted
        --> C won't find A therefore cannot ask B to join it (C doesn't know about B)

      SOLUTION:

      • If every member persisted its discovery results on disk, C would still know about A and B, and could therefore discover B
      • This could be implemented directly in TCPPING, or as a generic, separate, protocol (possibly useful for other discovery protocols such as S3_PING, TCPGOSSIP (when the GossipRouter is down) as well)
      • The disk cache would have to include an expiry mechanism, so that the file doesn't grow forever, and also stale results aren't returned forever
      • This mechanism would not work though if C came up the first time (no file on disk yet) and A wasn't running.

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