The doc said: > If you have 4 shards, that means that you can have at most 4 nodes.
But at other places it states: > For systems with lots of small, infrequently accessed databases, or > for servers with fewer CPU cores, consider reducing this value to > ``1`` or ``2``. and: > In a default 3-node cluster, each node would receive 8 shards. >From my understanding, the number of *shards* can be anything, and even `q=1` will not alter safety of data. Only `n` can. If I understand correctly: - If you have 4 *copies* of a shard (`n=4`), that means that you can have at most 4 nodes. - The number of nodes is not impacted by the number of shards (`q`). - You can have safe clusters with `n=3`, `q=1` (2 nodes can be down). So this commit tries to make the doc clearer. [ Full content available at: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/338 ] This message was relayed via gitbox.apache.org for [email protected]
