I believe the shard state is a reflection of whether that shard is still in use
by the collection, and has nothing to do with the state of the replicas. I
think doing a split-shard operation would create two new shards, and mark the
old one as inactive, for example.
On 2/26/16, 8:50 AM,
In clusterstate.json (or just state.json in new versions) I'm seeing the
following
"shard1":{
"range":"8000-d554",
"state":"active",
"replicas":{
"core_node7":{
"core":"people_shard1_replica3",
"base_url":"http://192.168.2.32:8983/solr;,
