Re: Transparent redundancy in Solr

2010-12-22 Thread Jan Høydahl
Well, SolrCloud is not yet fully specified for the indexing side - more work remains. But my point is that the architecture for should be ZK based. I added a new jira issue to flesh out a strategy for SolrCloud controlled distributed indexing in SOLR-2293 Perhaps you should open a JIRA issue fo

Re: Transparent redundancy in Solr

2010-12-19 Thread Upayavira
Jan, I'd appreciate a little more explanation here. I've explored SolrCloud somewhat, but there's some bits of this architecture I don't yet get. You say, next time an "indexer slave" pings ZK. What is an "indexer slave"? Is that the external entity that is doing posting indexing content? If this

Re: Transparent redundancy in Solr

2010-12-17 Thread Jan Høydahl / Cominvent
Hi, I believe the way to go is through ZooKeeper[1], not property files or local hacks. We've already started on this route and it makes sense to let ZK do what it is designed for, such as leader election. When a node starts up, it asks ZK what role it should have and fetches corresponding conf