[DOCS-1220] Clarify that balancer must be cleanly turned off before performing config server maintenance Created: 11/Mar/13  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 11/Mar/13

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Ed Costello Assignee: Sam Kleinman (Inactive)
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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 Description   

If a config server is brought down while a migration is in progress, the migration will fail.

There is an extremely small chance that the active migrating shard will shut down to avoid data corruption. When following best practices of using a replica set this will lead to the a new primary being elected.



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Comment by auto [ 11/Mar/13 ]

Author:

{u'date': u'2013-03-11T14:35:03Z', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-1220: amending config server maintence instructions with balancer information
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/18d0efd5b61039531311a2aeb94dca9a498a6ccb

Comment by auto [ 11/Mar/13 ]

Author:

{u'date': u'2013-03-11T14:35:03Z', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-1220: amending config server maintence instructions with balancer information
Branch: v2.2
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/db201e5daa3305f40367cb909a654667b8fd99f0

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