my understanding is that you can send your updates/deletes to any shard and they will be forwarded to the leader automatically. That being said your leader will always be the place where the index happens and then distributed to the other replicas.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Darren Govoni <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > Hi, > I just wanted to make sure I understand how distributed indexing works > in solrcloud. > > Can I index locally at each shard to avoid throttling a central port? Or > all the indexing has to go through a single shard leader? > > thanks > >