On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:10 PM, nk 11 <nick.cass...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I'm kind of new to Solr and I've read about replication, and the fact that a > node can act as both master and slave. > I a replica fails and then comes back on line I suppose that it will resyncs > with the master. right > > But what happnes if the master fails? A slave that is configured as master > will kick in? What if that slave is not yes fully sync'ed with the failed > master and has old data? if the master fails you can't index the data. but the slaves will continue serving the requests with the last index. You an bring back the master up and resume indexing.
> > What happens when the original master comes back on line? He will remain a > slave because there is another node with the master role? > > Thank you! > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
