[outworlder]

> Indices are composed of one or more primary shards. Each primary shard can have one replica. Three nodes, each with one primary shard as a part of that sjngle index, no replicas in play at all.

Ok, 3 nodes, each with one primary shard. No replicas. 1 node goes down, one shard is no longer found in the cluster, because it was in the missing node. That particular index, and in fact the whole cluster, are now RED.

Unless you discard that shard (force reroute, with accept_data_loss), nothing is going to be recovered and the missing shards will not be allocated anywhere.

[IanGabes]

Oh, yes, sorry i see your perspective now. You will get data loss in this example. My understanding of the example was that it is showing how one node can end up with all the write operations, i wasnt under the impression that it was a "real" cluster.