I think they are referring to child actors. i.e. it's OK for actor A to have a backoff supervisor (A can be persistent or not), but if it has a child which is a persistent actor then the caveats apply.
On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 6:09 AM, Alan Burlison <alan.burli...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 08/03/17 14:03, Alan Burlison wrote: > > That's not in the docs, it's just a source code comment - I'd have thought >> it was important enough a restriction to be in the scaladocs? >> >> Also, if BackoffSupervisor shouldn't be used with PersistentActors, what >> is >> the correct way of dealing with IO failures in persistent actors? >> > > Plus it directly contradicts this: > > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/persistence.html#Failures > > "It is better to stop the actor and after a back-off timeout start it > again. The akka.pattern.BackoffSupervisor actor is provided to support such > restarts." > > ??? > > > -- > Alan Burlison > -- > > -- > >> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/c >>>>>>>>>>> urrent/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/grou >>>>>>>>>>> p/akka-user >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the > Google Groups "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to akka-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to akka-user@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
