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  2. SERVER-5733

mongos --chunkSize does not update chunkSize setting

    • Type: Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Priority: Icon: Minor - P4 Minor - P4
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    • Affects Version/s: 2.0.0, 2.1.0
    • Component/s: Sharding
    • Environment:
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    • Minor Change

      When starting mongos with a specific value for the --chunkSize parameter this parameter will be ignored if there's already a chunkSize setting in config.settings. This basically means there's no officially supported way to change the chunkSize setting. I can certainly think of a few cases where MongoDB shouldn't allow this value to be modified but there are some valid use cases.

      Would it be possible to always respect the --chunkSize setting and error out if the setting is invalid for whatever reason? Or even better add an admin command for it. I've already run into a number of cases where I'd like different chunksizes for different collections for example so an additional (optional) parameter to the "shardCollection" command might be a good route to take.

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            Reporter:
            remonvv Remon van Vliet
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