[DOCS-1632] Clarify to which size metric the limit for sharding an existing collection applies Created: 20/Jun/13  Updated: 30/Oct/23  Resolved: 03/Sep/13

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
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Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Improvement Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Crashlytics Ops Assignee: Zack Brown
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 Description   

The MongoDB Limits and Thresholds¶ page indicates that

MongoDB only allows sharding an existing collection that holds fewer than 256 gigabytes of data.

However it does not specify the type of storage on which this limit is imposed.
E.g. collStats shows several metrics about storage, with and without indexes, the allocated size vs consumed size.

Can you please clarify to which of these metrics the sharding limit applies?



 Comments   
Comment by auto [ 03/Sep/13 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'tychoish', u'name': u'Sam Kleinman', u'email': u'samk@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-1632: edits
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/e073432a9b344a981ae7143b0231788eff1eca81

Comment by auto [ 03/Sep/13 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'Zackrobat', u'name': u'Zack Brown', u'email': u'zack.brown@10gen.com'}

Message: DOCS-1632: Clarify to which size metric the limit for sharding an existing collection applies

Signed-off-by: Sam Kleinman <samk@10gen.com>
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/368d165a0167bb0bcb498f7ab07e528531656b50

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