What Shawn said.... Erick
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 4/25/2014 10:54 AM, zzT wrote: >> >> So, this is where SolrCloud is different from legacy master/slave >> configuration? I mean master/slave sends segments to the slaves using e.g. >> rsync while SolrCloud forwards the indexing request to replicas where it's >> processed "locally" on each replica, right? > > > That's correct. Each replica indexes each new document independently. > > There is one detail about SolrCloud that can be very confusing: The > /replication handler must be defined in solrconfig.xml for SolrCloud to > function properly. This is because when an index *recovery* is required, it > will use the old-style replication to copy the index from the leader ... > which will usually copy the entire index. > > Related tangent: I think that SolrCloud should use a dedicated and invisible > handler for index recovery rather than an explictly defined handler named > "/replication". One possible name for this handler is "/cloudrecovery". > SOLR-3990 should be fixed before that gets done. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
