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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-9112

Config Servers as replica set

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major - P3
    • Resolution: Duplicate
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    • Sharding

    Description

      The config servers have a crucial role over sharding since they hold the mapping information of all moving pieces of a shard cluster.
      For several use cases the current behavior of config servers can be quite limiting due to 2 aspects:

      • Strick number of members
        • can impact multiple datacenter deployments
        • specially on slow networks
      • Failover of members
        • needs to have all 3 always online otherwise the cluster may encounter problems booting up mongos's

      Due to historic and mathematical reasons the config servers have the current hard number of 3 members.
      Setting them as replicas with enforced Write Concerns for balancer locking and migration operations we can achieve a more flexible shard cluster.
      Also the current hard setting creates some confusion on clients and generates a bit of unrest while configuring a sharding environment.

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              norberto.leite Norberto Fernando Rocha Leite (Inactive)
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