Hi, How exactly does SolrCloud handle split brain situations?
Imagine a cluster of 10 nodes. Imagine 3 of them being connected to the network by some switch and imagine the out port of this switch dies. When that happens, these 3 nodes will be disconnected from the other 7 nodes and we'll have 2 clusters, one with 3 nodes and one with 7 nodes and we'll have a split brain situation. Imagine we had 3 ZK nodes in the original 10-node cluster, 2 of which are connected to the dead switch and are thus aware only of the 3 node cluster now, and 1 ZK instance which is on a different switch and is thus aware only of the 7 node cluster. At this point how exactly does ZK make SolrCloud immune to split brain? Does LBHttpSolrServer play a key role here? (I see LBHttpSolrServer mentioned only once on http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud and with a question mark next to it) Thanks, Otis ---- Performance Monitoring for Solr / ElasticSearch / HBase - http://sematext.com/spm
