1> I would not do this. First there's the lock issues you mentioned.
But let's say replica1 is your indexer and replicas2 and 3 point to
the same index. When replica1 commits, now do replicas 2 and 3 know to
open a new searcher?
<2> and <3> just seem like variants of coupling Solr instances to
Hi,We are using some features like collapse and joins that force us not to use
sharding for now. Still i am checking for possibilities for load balancing and
high availability.1- I think about using many solr instances run against the
same shard file system. This way all instances will work
