No, the hash ranges are split and new docs go to both new shards. - Mark
On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <otis.gospodne...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Imagine a (common) situation where you use document routing and you > end up with 1 large shards (e.g. 1 large user with lots of docs). > Shard splitting will help here, because we can break up that 1 shard > in 2 smaller shards (and maybe do that "recursively" to make shards > sufficiently small). > > But what happens with document routing after a big shard is split? > I assume new docs keep going to just one of the 2 new shards, right? > > If so, does that mean that after a while one of the new shards will > balloon again and the above procedure will need to be repeated? > > Thanks, > Otis > -- > Solr & ElasticSearch Support -- http://sematext.com/ > Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm/index.html
