> Right, the shard field.
> You HAVE to set to a real shard, not a dummy.
> The reason is you have to have chunks that take up the entire key space.
> If not, when you try to insert something there it will fail badly.
> The system also makes sure the key space is complete and sane.
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ted <underhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I assume by owner you mean the shard tag (vice the ns tag) from the
> shards
> > collection. Do I just make up a dummy shard?
> > Curious to know why deleting the chunk's existence is bad. The chunk is
> > gone.
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Eliot Horowitz <eliothorow...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> Change owners, deleting the chunks would be bad.
> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Ted <underhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I would like to have a working cluster with 2 servers. No worries
> about
> >> > the
> >> > lost chunks from the down server since this is a test system (I was
> >> > bummed
> >> > because the db was almost at a 1B rows).
> >> > Do I change owners or just delete the chunk's existence on the config
> >> > server?
> >> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Eliot Horowitz <
> eliothorow...@gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> What state do you want to end up?
> >> >> You can do some hackery on the config db if you need?
> >> >> i.e. shutdown all shards + mongos
> >> >> remove that shard from the shards collection
> >> >> change the owner of all chunks that were on that shard somewhere
> >> >> else
> >> >> obviously on a live system that would cause havoc, but should work
> >> >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Ted <underhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> > I read through the thread a little too quick. What should I do if
> I
> >> >> > don't
> >> >> > have a replacement server?
> >> >> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Alvin Richards <al...@10gen.com>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >> Yes, this is the best way to deal with this.
> >> >> >> -Alvin
> >> >> >> On Jan 5, 10:47 am, Ted <underhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >> > I have a test cluster running 1.6.5 with 3 servers. One of the
> >> >> >> > shard
> >> >> >> > servers died with no chance of recovery.
> >> >> >> > Is this post (http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user/
> browse_thread/thread/f76f1d8504101243/59633b2d68f6db1d?lnk=gst&q=failed
> >> >> >> > +shard+server#59633b2d68f6db1d) the best way to handle this
> >> >> >> > situation?
> >> >> >> > I just want to get the cluster going again and ignore the lost
> >> >> >> > data.
> >> >> >> > Thanks.
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