num_shard is indeed the number of shards created when you create the collection.
num_shards is irrelevant to the splitshard command. You can look in your state.json (collectionstate.json in Solr 4x) to find this number. Best, Erick On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 2:25 PM, kiyer_adobe <ikan...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Understand you provision the number of shards needed when you create the > collection using num_shards parameter. > Few questions: > - Is this only for initial number of shards or would apply when you split > the original shard as well? > - What happens when the splits go over the number of shards that you > initially allocated? > - How/where can you see the number of shards allocated when you created the > collection? > > Thanks. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Split-Shards-tp4240699.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
