Comment 2 for bug 1285380

Raghu, this is by design. Non-synced node can't be used for state transfer.

Ovais, is there any serious use case for that? We can make the joiner to abort in this case, but then there will be another complaint that the joiner aborts instead of waiting for the donor to become available. We can provide only as much flexibility with an simple interface like that (or we need to add more options).