Andrzej Bialecki created SOLR-12509:
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Summary: Improve SplitShardCmd performance and reliability
Key: SOLR-12509
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-12509
Project: Solr
Issue Type: Improvement
Security Level: Public (Default Security Level. Issues are Public)
Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
{{SplitShardCmd}} is currently quite complex.
Shard splitting occurs on active shards, which are still being updated, so the
splitting has to involve several carefully orchestrated steps, making sure that
new sub-shard placeholders are properly created and visible, and then also
applying buffered updates to the split leaders and performing recovery on
sub-shard replicas.
This process could be simplified in cases where collections are not actively
being updated or can tolerate a little downtime - we could put the shard
"offline", ie. disable writing while the splitting is in progress (in order to
avoid users' confusion we should disable writing to the whole collection).
The actual index splitting could perhaps be improved to use
{{HardLinkCopyDirectoryWrapper}} for creating a copy of the index by
hard-linking existing index segments, and then applying deletes to the
documents that don't belong in a sub-shard. However, the resulting index slices
that replicas would have to pull would be the same size as the whole shard.
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