Solr Cloud on HDFS

[Lajos]

Hi all,

I've been running Solr on HDFS, and that's fine.
But I have a Cloud installation I thought I'd try on HDFS. I uploaded 
the configs for the core that runs in standalone mode already on HDFS 
(on another cluster). I specify the HdfsDirectoryFactory, HDFS data dir, 
solr.hdfs.home, and HDFS update log path:

  <dataDir>hdfs://master:9000/solr/test/data</dataDir>

  <directoryFactory name="DirectoryFactory"
    class="solr.HdfsDirectoryFactory">
     <str name="solr.hdfs.home">hdfs://master:9000/solr</str>
  </directoryFactory>

  <updateHandler class="solr.DirectUpdateHandler2">
    <updateLog>
      <str name="dir">hdfs://master:9000/solr/test/ulog</str>
    </updateLog>
  </updateHandler>

Question is: should I create my collection differently than I would a 
normal collection?

If I just try that, Solr will initialise the directory in HDFS as if it 
were a single core. It will create shard directories on my nodes, but 
not actually put anything in there. And then it will complain mightily 
about not being able to forward updates to other nodes. (This same 
cluster hosts regular collections, and everything is working fine).

Am I missing a step? Do I have to manually create HDFS directories for 
each replica?

Thanks,

L