Re: Need help understanding the use cases behind core auto-discovery

2013-09-21 Thread Trey Grainger
While on this topic... Is it still true in Solr 4.5 (RC) that it is not possible to have a shared config directory? In general, I like the new core.properties mechanism better as it removes the unnecessary centralized configuration of cores in solr.xml, but I have an infrastructure where I have t

Re: Need help understanding the use cases behind core auto-discovery

2013-09-21 Thread Erick Erickson
Also consider where SolrCloud is going. Trying to correctly maintain all the solr.xml files yourself on all the nodes would have been..."interesting". On all the machines in your 200 node cluster. With 17 different collections. With nodes coming and going. With splitting shards. With. Collecti

Re: Need help understanding the use cases behind core auto-discovery

2013-09-20 Thread Timothy Potter
Exactly the insight I was looking for! Thanks Yonik ;-) On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Timothy Potter > wrote: > > Trying to add some information about core.properties and auto-discovery > in > > Solr in Action and am at a loss for wha

Re: Need help understanding the use cases behind core auto-discovery

2013-09-20 Thread Yonik Seeley
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Timothy Potter wrote: > Trying to add some information about core.properties and auto-discovery in > Solr in Action and am at a loss for what to tell the reader is the purpose > of this feature. IMO, it was more a removal of unnecessary central configuration. You