Handling failovers (rewrite)

[Ben Manes]

Sorry, another question!

In the Java client, I don't see the following scenario being taken care of:
0.  Lets assume that we have one memcached server that is prone to failure.  Lets call it bucket_1.
1. The remote cache is warmed before release, and we have some key/value pairs in bucket_1.
2. bucket_1 crashes, and on-demand our key_1 are remapped to bucket_2.
  2.A. The first get() would return a null, indicating a miss.
  2.B. We reload the data from the database and add it to bucket_2.
3. A user modifies some configuration data, and so we update our value for key_1 in bucket_2.
4. Some time later, we bring bucket_1 back online.  It now has no data.
5. Our key_1 is requested, hits bucket_1, and we get a miss/reload.  Now, bucket_1 has the new data and bucket_2 has stale data.
6. bucket_1 crashes yet again.
7. key_1 is requested, is remapped to bucket_2, and now gets stale data.

This is obviously a small edge case and it would be difficult for the client to know that it needs to expire the value in bucket_2.  More than likely the stale data is benign, but I believe the scenario is valid.

Thanks!
Ben




       
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