Index Recovery Initial Shards

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I was reading the release notes for .18 and stumbled upon a new
feature described under https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/1163.
Can anyone explain what that setting is for?

Thanks,
Jason

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Sure. The setting index.recovery.initial_shards provides the following:

Basically, when using a local gateway, a "shard" will be recovered once a
quorum of its copies are found among the nodes in the cluster.

Lets take N shard, with 1 replica (2 copies for each shard). The default
(quorum) means that once a singe copy of a shard is found, it will be
recovered. If you have 2 replicas (3 copies), it will only recover that
shard once 2 copies are found.

You can set this setting, in case you lost a large number of nodes,
and quorum is a too strict setting. You can actually set it on a "live"
index (which is in a "red" state, obviously, because not all shards are
recovered).

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 9:39 PM, jjasinek jjasinek@gmail.com wrote:

I was reading the release notes for .18 and stumbled upon a new
feature described under
Index Settings: Add `index.recovery.initial_shards` controlling the number of shards to exists when using local gateway · Issue #1163 · elastic/elasticsearch · GitHub.
Can anyone explain what that setting is for?

Thanks,
Jason

3

Thanks Shay! Can I assume that if this property is not set that no default
exists or that the default is really '1'.

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The default is for the setting is "quorum".

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:32 PM, jjasinek jjasinek@gmail.com wrote:

Thanks Shay! Can I assume that if this property is not set that no
default exists or that the default is really '1'.

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