From 480fff327dbda570ade1bf54876d2ec7e7299781 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Grabar Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:38:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] added to pre-splits entry in glossary --- source/reference/glossary.txt | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/reference/glossary.txt b/source/reference/glossary.txt index df5884570f4..b1f4bc27ada 100644 --- a/source/reference/glossary.txt +++ b/source/reference/glossary.txt @@ -512,11 +512,13 @@ Glossary MongoDB will return from the documents in the result set. pre-splitting - When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes - necessary to expedite the initial distribution of documents - among shards by manually dividing the collection into chunks. - In this case, you pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for - the MongoDB :term:`balancer` to create splits. + Pre-splitting is a command run prior to data insertion that + specifies the shard key values on which to split up chunks. + When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes necessary + to expedite the initial distribution of documents among shards by + manually dividing the collection into chunks. In this case, you + pre-split the chunks instead of waiting for the MongoDB + :term:`balancer` to create splits. SSD Solid State Disk. A high-performance disk drive that uses solid From 0170127fb161d64fb7af2cb8fdc8d282e9de554c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Grabar Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:44:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] edited my addition to pre-splits entry --- source/reference/glossary.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/reference/glossary.txt b/source/reference/glossary.txt index b1f4bc27ada..06a1704edb2 100644 --- a/source/reference/glossary.txt +++ b/source/reference/glossary.txt @@ -512,8 +512,8 @@ Glossary MongoDB will return from the documents in the result set. pre-splitting - Pre-splitting is a command run prior to data insertion that - specifies the shard key values on which to split up chunks. + Pre-splitting is an action you can perform prior to data insertion + that specifies the shard key values on which to split chunks. When deploying a :term:`shard cluster`, it is sometimes necessary to expedite the initial distribution of documents among shards by manually dividing the collection into chunks. In this case, you