# Dedicated master - quorum and recovery settings
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 18, 2015, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893 "2015-11-18T08:00:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Fraschetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Fraschetti)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 8:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893/1 "2015-11-18T08:00:35Z")
My cluster has finally reached the size/complexity where I'm ready to roll out dedicated master nodes.
What I haven't been able to 100% nail down is what settings belong on the data nodes vs. what belong on the master nodes.
Here are the settings in question:
gateway.expected\_master\_nodes
gateway.recover\_after\_nodes
gateway.expected\_nodes
gateway.recover\_after\_time
My question is simply - which of these settings need to exist on the data nodes, master nodes, or both?
My assumption would be:
**Data nodes only**
gateway.recover\_after\_nodes
gateway.expected\_nodes
gateway.recover\_after\_time
**Master nodes only**
gateway.expected\_master\_nodes
While I've found a decent amount of material encouraging the use of dedicated masters, the documentation for how to pull that off (correctly) is a bit lacking.
Thanks in advance!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893/2 "2015-11-18T10:27:40Z")
You need the same settings on all the nodes 😄
Fair point around the docs, will see what we can do to fix it!
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### Author:  [@Chris\_Fraschetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Chris_Fraschetti)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2015, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893/3 "2015-11-18T21:44:23Z")
Thanks. Every node it is.
I've seen a lot of improvements in the docs over the past year or so, I think a few more "here's what configuration settings apply to what nodes in the scenarios we've been describing" would go a long way.
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893/4 "2015-11-19T00:49:46Z")
Understood, problem is that there is a _lot_ of different scenarios.
However when it comes to basic N node deployments this should be easier to do.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dedicated-master-quorum-and-recovery-settings/34893/5 "2017-07-05T23:37:24Z")