# Question in Node Configuration

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 6, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779 "2024-05-06T06:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@hossa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hossa)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779/1 "2024-05-06T06:24:10Z")

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Hello I have a cluster consisting of 3 nodes, one of which I want to be for reading and the other for writing How can I do that?

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779/2 "2024-05-06T09:34:19Z")

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Elasticsearch does not work like that. Any node that holds a replica of a shard will write and reads can gio to any node. Why are you looking to restrict this? What is the high-level problem you are trying to solve?

This also seems to be a duplicate of [this issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358782). Please do not open multiple issues on the same topic.

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**Author:** ![hossa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@hossa](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/hossa)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2024, 4:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358779/3 "2024-05-06T16:43:57Z")

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> [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](#):
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> Elasticsearch does not work like that. Any node that holds a replica of a shard will write and reads can gio to any node. Why are you looking to restrict this? What is the high-level problem you are trying to solve?
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> This also seems to be a duplicate of [this issue](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/question-in-node-configuration/358782). Please do not open multiple issues on the same topic.

I have big data and I need to make some updates to it, and during the update process, I do a search to return the documents that I will update on  
During these operations, when I search the site where the data is displayed, an error occurs and the server is not responding