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  1. Documentation
  2. DOCS-15643

Add "Change shard key is not supported for replica sets with arbiters"

      We should document considerations in https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/core/replica-set-arbiter/  for sharded clusters with arbiters so that it's very clear what the limitations of arbiters are.

      In SERVER-64462  the issue (Changing shard keys errored for replica sets with an arbiter) was caused by unawareness of the fact that:

      transactions whose write operations span multiple shards will error and abort if any transaction operation reads from or writes to a shard that contains an arbiter.

      The context has been documented in transactions-sharded-clusters we believe it would be helpful to add a similar context in replica-set-arbiter (The first link that shows up by googling "MongoDB arbiters") to bring awareness of the limitation of using arbiters to users.

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            yuan.fang@mongodb.com Yuan Fang
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