It would be useful to be able to create initial hashed shard key chunks directly on shards, instead of creating them on one shard and then distributing.
Specifically, when the balancer is busy doing a long balancer run and it won't be able to balance out those empty hashed key chunks right way.
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SERVER-13340 parallel creation of hashed shard key for multiple collections may not distribute them evenly
- Closed
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SERVER-31425 Retrying initial shardCollection with hashed shard key after retryable error can skip moveChunk
- Closed
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SERVER-35915 Blacklist hash_skey_split.js from the continuous config stepdown suite
- Closed
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SERVER-10430 Improve distribution of new chunks when creating hashed sharded collections
- Closed
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SERVER-14298 Add support to create/define chunks in a given shard for empty collections
- Closed
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SERVER-17474 Mongos doesn't see new sharded collection
- Closed