Assumptions: * you currently have two choices to start Zookeeper: run it embedded within Solr, or download it from the ZooKeeper site and start it independently. * everything you need to run ZooKeeper (embedded or not) is included within the Solr distribution
Assuming I've got the above right, then currently starting an embedded ZooKeeper is easy (-DzkRun), and starting an ensemble is irritatingly complex. So, my question is, how hard would it be to start Zookeeper without Solr, but from within the Solr codebase? -DensembleOnly or some such, causes Solr not to load, but Zookeeper still starts. I'm assuming that Jetty would still listen on port 8983, but it wouldn't initialise the Solr webapp: java -DzkRun -DzkEnsembleOnly -DzkHosts=zkhost01:9983,zkhost02:9983,zkhost03:9983 -jar start.jar Is this possible? If it is, I'm happy to have a go at making it happen. Upayavira
