They won't be detected as the cluster metadata will have the shards allocated to node A, not node C. The metadata needs to be updated as well as you point out, but I don't believe there is a way to manually do that.
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 22 January 2014 11:39, hrishikesh prabhune <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have two Elasticsearch nodes on server A and B .Each node is storing the > indices on two SANs (Storage area network) mounted on each server. > I booted up another server C with a single elastic search node on it. And > then, unmounted one of the SAN on the server A and mounted it on server C. > I restarted the whole cluster again with the new placement of the SANs. I > assumed that the cluster will find the manually moved shards and it will > initialize them accordingly . But this isn't the case. I am getting the > below warning messages in the logs. > sending failed shard for [2013-12-26.06:00][0], node[ > VD7c5WgxSaaTZ2_6yRgcLQ], [P], s[INITIALIZING], reason [Failed to start > shard, message [IndexShardGatewayRecoveryException[[2013-12-26.06:00][0]shard > allocated > for local recovery (post api), should exist, but doesn't, current > files:[...... > The above warn message is pretty straightforward. It just means that the > local recovery for a particular index failed due to SAN relocation, which > is valid. > But I want the cluster to search for the shards on other nodes too. But > somehow the moved shards are not getting located by the cluster. > Is there a way to initialize these manually moved shards correctly? > Also, can anyone elaborate on what meta information that is stored in the > Elasticsearch index which is used by the local node and also the whole > cluster during recovery ? > Oh , btw I am using Elasticsearch version - 0.90.5 > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/cfccfc5a-6521-4a39-8d28-201daa5b7484%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624aOsMEsa-BUF33LJ6vO_m8w-0ytiAuPBKr%3DKuDsn2qdRw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
