Re: Writing on master while replicating to slave

2011-02-10 Thread Erick Erickson
Just for the first part: There's no problem here, the write lock is to keep simultaneous *writes* from occurring, the slave reading the index doesn't enter in to it. Note that in Solr, when segments are created in an index, they are write-once. So basically what happens when a slave replicates is t

Writing on master while replicating to slave

2011-02-10 Thread Shane Perry
Hi, When a slave is replicating from the master instance, it appears a write lock is created. Will this lock cause issues with writing to the master while the replication is occurring or does SOLR have some queuing that occurs to prevent the actual write until the replication is complete? I've be