I have committed a fix for 4.6 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-5295
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar < shalinman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for reporting this Brett. This is indeed a bug. A workaround is to > specify replicationFactor=1 with the createShard command which will create > only one replica even if maxShardsPerNode=1000 at collection level. > > I'll open an issue. > > > On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Brett Hoerner <br...@bretthoerner.com>wrote: > >> Related, 1 more try: >> >> Created collection starting with 4 shards on 1 box. Had to set >> maxShardsPerNode to 4 to do this. >> >> Now I want to "roll over" my time window, so to attempt to deal with the >> problems noted above I delete the oldest shard first. That works fine. >> >> Now I try to add my new shard, which works, but again it defaults to >> "maxShardsPerNode" # of replicas, so I'm left with: >> >> * [deleted by me] hour0 >> * hour1 - 1 replica >> * hour2 - 1 replica >> * hour3 - 1 replica >> * hour4 - 4 replicas [ << the one I created after deleting hour0] >> >> Still at a loss as to how I would create 1 new shard with 1 replica on any >> server in 4.5? >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Brett Hoerner <br...@bretthoerner.com >> >wrote: >> >> > It seems that changes in 4.5 collection configuration now require users >> to >> > set a maxShardsPerNode (or it defaults to 1). >> > >> > Maybe this was the case before, but with the new CREATESHARD API it >> seems >> > a very restrictive. I've just created a very simple test collection on 3 >> > machines where I set maxShardsPerNode at collection creation time to 1, >> and >> > I made 3 shards. Everything is good. >> > >> > Now I want a 4th shard, it seems impossible to create because the >> cluster >> > "knows" I should only have 1 shard per node. Yet my problem doesn't >> require >> > more hardware, I just my new shard to exist on one of the existing >> servers. >> > >> > So I try again -- I create a collection with 3 shards and set >> > maxShardsPerNode to 1000 (just as a silly test). Everything is good. >> > >> > Now I add shard4 and it immediately tries to add 1000 replicas of >> shard4... >> > >> > You can see my earlier email today about time-oriented data in 4.5 to >> see >> > what I'm trying to do. I was hoping to have 1 shard per hour/day with >> the >> > ability to easily add/drop them as I move the time window (say, a week >> of >> > data, 1 per day). >> > >> > Am I missing something? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Shalin Shekhar Mangar. > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.