When the cluster is fully operational, yes. But if part of the cluster is
down or split and unable to communicate, or leader election is in progress,
the actual count of leaders will not be indicative of the number of shards.
Leaders and shards are apples and oranges. If you take down a cluster, by
definition it would have no leaders (because leaders are running code), but
shards are the files in the index on disk that continue to exist even if the
code is not running. So, in the extreme, the number of leaders can be zero
while the number of shards is non-zero on disk.
-- Jack Krupansky
-----Original Message-----
From: Furkan KAMACI
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 8:21 AM
To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: SolrCloud Leaders
Does number of leaders at a SolrCloud is equal to number of shards?
