I've created a PR to address this: https://github.com/apache/solr/pull/2432
Open to other ways of approaching it though. - Houston On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 4:44 AM Mark Miller <markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a publish node as down and wait method that just waits until then > down states show up in the cluster state. But waiting won't do any good > until down is actually published and it still is not. I'm pretty down has > never been published on startup despite appearances. I've seen two > ramifications from this. One is that it's much easier for replicas to get > out of sync when restarting a cluster while updates are coming in. I say > easier, because that's notnair tight regardless, but it does make it much > easier to happen. The second is that cores that are not ready can > participate in leader elections, receiving updates and queries. And if a > core fails to load, it will participate indefinitely. Retries and fault > tolerance will plaster over a good chunk of that though, less so for leader > election when a core fails to load >