The configuration XSD is misleading concerning the store property: purge on start-up (and may be others too).

This indicates that is is true by default:

• https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/server/integration/infinispan/src/main/resources/schema/jboss-infinispan-core_7_2.xsd#L717

  <xs:attribute name="purge" type="xs:boolean" default="true">
  

• http://docs.jboss.org/infinispan/7.2/configdocs/infinispan-cachestore-jpa-config-7.2.html

However it is really false by default:

• Test.java

      @Test
      public void test() throws Exception
      {
          String xml = "<infinispan>"
                  + "  <cache-container>"
                  + "   <local-cache name=\"test\">"
                  + "     <persistence>"
                  + "       <file-store/>"
                  + "     </persistence>"
                  + "   </local-cache>"
                  + "  </cache-container>"
                  + "</infinispan>";
          DefaultCacheManager mgr = new DefaultCacheManager(new ByteArrayInputStream(xml.getBytes()));
          assertFalse(mgr.getCache("test").getCacheConfiguration().persistence().stores().get(0).purgeOnStartup());
      }
  

• http://infinispan.org/docs/7.2.x/user_guide/user_guide.html#configuration_2
• https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/blob/master/core/src/main/java/org/infinispan/configuration/cache/AbstractStoreConfiguration.java#L12