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Yonik Seeley commented on SOLR-3088: ------------------------------------ There are a couple of reasons... - the cluster should be self-describing so that one can start up a node and say "go join this cluster" and need not know anything else (like the number of shards that is currently passed when starting each node) - right now, one can bring up one shard of a 3 shard cluster and then successfully index a bunch of docs (oops, they all went into shard1) I imagine the placeholders should be both in the ZK structure under /collections and in clusterstate > create shard placeholders > ------------------------- > > Key: SOLR-3088 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3088 > Project: Solr > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: SolrCloud > Reporter: Yonik Seeley > Fix For: 4.0 > > > When creating a new collection, a placeholder for each shard should be > created. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org