Hey Mark, Thanks for the extra effort in responding :)
Are you ok if I file a jira ticket and complete this feature on trunk? We need this feature for a project. Jed Glazner Sr. Software Engineer Adobe jglaz...@adobe.com ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mark Miller" <markrmil...@gmail.com> To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: How to make a server become a replica / leader for a collection at startup Date: Sun, Aug 19, 2012 9:11 am Hmm...last email was blocked from the list as spam :) Let me try again forcing plain text: Hey Jed, I think what you are looking for is something I have proposed, but is not implemented yet. We started with a fairly simple collections API since we just wanted to make sure we had something in 4.0. I would like it to be better though. My proposal was that when you create a new collection with n shards and z replicas, that should be recorded in ZooKeeper by the Overseer. The Overseer should then watch for when a new node comes up - then a trigger a process that compares the config for the collection against the real world - and remove or add based on that info. I don't think it's that difficult to do, but given a lot of other things we are working on, and the worry of destabilizing anything before the 4 release, I think it's more likely to come in a point release later. It's not super complicated work, but there are some tricky corner cases I think. - Mark
