On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 01:42 +0100, Patrick Henry wrote: > Good eye, that should have been gigabytes. When adding to the new shard, > is the shard already part of the the collection? What mechanism have you > found useful in accomplishing this (i.e. routing)?
Currently (and for the foreseeable future), the number of users of the system is very limited, so a few minutes downtime is acceptable. For each search machine (currently 1, but 2 more are being added in January), 25 single-shard Solrs are running, some of them empty. When we have produced a new shard, we shut down a Solr with an empty shard, move the new shard in and start it up. Not very elegant, but simple to maintain. - Toke Eskildsen, State and University Library
