I could really use someone's brain here.

Let's say i configure Hibernate to use the JBossCache in a replicated cluster. And let's say i'm using a single ( non-clustered ) database for persistence. So now the database goes down. Will subsequent Hibernate queries still succesfully return results from the 2nd level cache? And will updates still get propogated across the JBossCache cluster? Obviously this is a bad situation but my requirements demand high availability but not long term persistence ( my data only needs to be around for ~9 hrs ).

I guess i could build a prototype and see...

Thx in advance
-matt