You can use a connect string of host:port/path to 'chroot' a path. I think currently you have to manually create the path first though. See the ZkCli tool (doc'd on SolrCloud wiki) for a simple way to do that.
I keep meaning to look into auto making it if it doesn't exist, but have not gotten to it. - Mark On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Buttler, David <buttl...@llnl.gov> wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to use a single zookeeper cluster to manage multiple Solr cloud > installations. However, the current design of how Solr uses zookeeper seems > to preclude that. Have I missed a configuration option to set a zookeeper > prefix for all of a Solr cloud configuration directories? > > If I look at the zookeeper data it looks like: > > * /clusterstate.json > * /collections > * /configs > * /live_nodes > * /overseer > * /overseer_elect > * /zookeeper > Is there a reason not to put all of these nodes under some user-configurable > higher-level node, such as /solr4? > It could have a reasonable default value to make it just as easy to find as /. > > My current issue is that I have an old Solr cloud instance from back in the > Solr 1.5 days, and I don't expect that the new version and the old version > will play nice. > > Thanks, > Dave >