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Mark Miller commented on SOLR-7569:
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bq. because we aren't really forcing a leader, but just paving things for an
election to happen.
I guess it comes down to how you want to think about. When you use this, it
will be because the system is blocking a leader from taking over. By running
this API command, you remove the blocks, thus 'forcing' a leader the system
would not normally pick - or at least attempting to force a leader the system
would not really pick. It depends on if you want to get bogged down in
implementation or design.
I think your proposal is fine though.
> Create an API to force a leader election between nodes
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>
> Key: SOLR-7569
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7569
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: SolrCloud
> Reporter: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
> Assignee: Shalin Shekhar Mangar
> Labels: difficulty-medium, impact-high
> Attachments: SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch,
> SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch,
> SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569.patch, SOLR-7569_lir_down_state_test.patch
>
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> There are many reasons why Solr will not elect a leader for a shard e.g. all
> replicas' last published state was recovery or due to bugs which cause a
> leader to be marked as 'down'. While the best solution is that they never get
> into this state, we need a manual way to fix this when it does get into this
> state. Right now we can do a series of dance involving bouncing the node
> (since recovery paths between bouncing and REQUESTRECOVERY are different),
> but that is difficult when running a large cluster. Although it is possible
> that such a manual API may lead to some data loss but in some cases, it is
> the only possible option to restore availability.
> This issue proposes to build a new collection API which can be used to force
> replicas into recovering a leader while avoiding data loss on a best effort
> basis.
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