Restarting a 2-node elasticsearch cluster with zero downtime

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Cross-posting from stackoverflow:

Not sure when this behaviour changed but it seems odd that you can't force
an immediate election when you explicitly shutdown a master.

And the guidance around what happens in this "no master block
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html"
scenario seems off based on what we're experiencing:

Read operations will succeed, based on the last known cluster

configuration. This may result in partial reads of stale data as this node
may be isolated from the rest of the cluster.

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We've gathered more information here and updated the question below but the
question still stands:

Shouldn't there be a way to avoid a "no master block" during a cluster
restart when the master is explicitly shutdown?

On Sunday, December 7, 2014 12:38:23 PM UTC-5, Nariman Haghighi wrote:

Cross-posting from stackoverflow:

Restarting a 2-node elasticsearch cluster with zero downtime - Stack Overflow

Not sure when this behaviour changed but it seems odd that you can't force
an immediate election when you explicitly shutdown a master.

And the guidance around what happens in this "no master block
http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/modules-discovery-zen.html"
scenario seems off based on what we're experiencing:

Read operations will succeed, based on the last known cluster

configuration. This may result in partial reads of stale data as this node
may be isolated from the rest of the cluster.

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