On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Ravikumar Govindarajan < [email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to know the internals of what happens during a layout change. > > Shards will get re-assigned to different shard-servers > > Taking the case of a single shard during re-assignment, will there be 2 > shard-servers serving the same shard for a brief period of time? Will there > be a window, where shard is temporarily unavailable etc.. > Currently there will be a brief amount of time (a few seconds for most medium to large indexes) where the shard is unavailable. In the future we will likely allow the same shard to be served from multiple servers at the same time, but currently that is not the case. Aaron > > Any help is much appreciated > > -- > Ravi >
