On 9/7/2011 3:18 PM, Pulkit Singhal wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working off the trunk and the following wiki link: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrCloud > > The wiki link has a section that seeks to quickly familiarize a user > with replication in SolrCloud - "Example B: Simple two shard cluster > with shard replicas" > > But after going through it, I have to wonder if this is truly > replication?
Not really. Replication is not set up in the example. The example use "replicas" as "copies", to demonstrate high search availability. > Because if it is truly replication then somewhere along > the line, the following properties must have been set > programmatically: > replicateAfter, confFiles, masterUrl, pollInterval > Can someone tell me: Where exactly in the code is this happening? Nowhere. If you want replication, you need to set all the properties you listed in solrconfig.xml. I've done it recently, see http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Replication-setup-with-SolrCloud-Zk-td2952602.html