It's unclear to me. The docs didn't help much. 
Yea, I am working on a complete high level docs of the gateway concepts, to
tie things together. I plan to explain all of that there.
In general, a (yet undocumented) feature of elasticsearch is the ability to
start specific master nodes (node.master=true, node.data=false) and data
nodes (node.master=false, node.data=true). Cluster level state recovery
(indices created, mappings and so on) only matter for master nodes count.
Thats why that setting is there.
Data recovery (actual index and transaction log) differs a bit between
shared gateway and local gateway. With local gateway, there is
a quorum based recovery, and once a quorum of shard + replica is found for
each shard, then the index is recovered.
-shay.banon
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Pablo Borges pablort@gmail.com wrote:
It's unclear to me. The docs didn't help much.
