Github user kxepal commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/couchdb-documentation/pull/19#discussion_r28204718
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+.. _cluster/sharding:
+
+========
+Sharding
+========
+
+.. _cluster/sharding/scaling-out:
+
+Scaling out
+===========
+
+Normally you start small and grow over time. In the beginning you might do
just
+fine with one node, but as your data and number of clients grows, you need
to
+scale out.
+
+For simplicity we will start fresh and small.
+
+Start node1 and add a database to it. To keep it simple we will have 2
shards
+and no replicas.
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+ curl -X PUT "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5984/small?n=1&q=2"; --user daboss
+
+If you look in the directory ``data/shards`` you will find the 2 shards.
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ data
+ shards
+ 00000000-7fffffff
+ small.1425202577.couch
+ 80000000-ffffffff
+ small.1425202577.couch
+
+Now, go to the admin panel
+
+.. code-block:: text
+
+ http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5986/_utils
+
+and look in the database ``_dbs``, it is here that the metadata for each
+database is stored. As the database is called small, there is a document
called
+small there. Let us look in it. Yes, you can get it with curl too:
+
+.. code-block:: javascript
+
+ curl -X GET "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5986/_dbs/small";
+
+ {
+ "_id": "small",
+ "_rev": "1-5e2d10c29c70d3869fb7a1fd3a827a64",
+ "shard_suffix": [
+ 46,
+ 49,
+ 52,
+ 50,
+ 53,
+ 50,
+ 48,
+ 50,
+ 53,
+ 55,
+ 55
+ ],
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