Thanks Aaron for the quick reply... Is the shard-unavailability auto-detected by ZK? Then I obviously have to take into account GC pauses also, before configuring it.
Serving same-shard from multiple servers is possible? Wow, that would be killer feature ... On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Aaron McCurry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
