Dumb Question on bouncing nodes

2013-12-31 Thread Pierce Wetter
Q: Is using the automatic node naming where every time I bounce a node I get a new node name interfering with restarting from the local gateway? Q Background: So previously, I asked about bouncing nodes, because it seems that whenever I bounce a node, it has to regenerate the node from the

Re: Dumb Question on bouncing nodes

2013-12-31 Thread Ivan Brusic
Unless I misread the post, your scenario seems to be the normal behavior. If you restart a node with allocation disabled, it will have no shards. Re-enabling allocation will force the shards on the node to be active. This behavior is at least what I have experienced. Perhaps there should be a

Re: Dumb Question on bouncing nodes

2013-12-31 Thread Pierce Wetter
Reading the description of that issue, I don't think they're the same. Looking at the code... Yeah, that's only about moving primaries around. So is there a way to restart a node without it going to zero shards and then back again? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: Dumb Question on bouncing nodes

2013-12-31 Thread Ivan Brusic
I do not think there is a way, but perhaps someone else can correct me. One potential way is to instead of disabling allocation, to set a timeout value high enough that the node can fully restart before the cluster drops the node. However, I am not sure if a node that is being cleanly shutdown