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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -166,3 +166,7 @@ potential failure scenarios and available resolutions:
166166 splits <sharding-procedure-create-split>`. Replace the config server
167167 as soon as possible. If all multiple config databases become
168168 unavailable, the cluster can become inoperable.
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170+ .. note::
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172+ All config servers must be running when you first set up a shard cluster.
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335335- migrate a chunk between shards.
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337+ Additionally, all config servers must be available on initial setup
338+ of a shard cluster, each :program:`mongos` instance must be able
339+ to write to the ``config.version`` collection.
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337341If one or two configuration instances become unavailable, the
338342cluster's metadata becomes *read only*. It is still possible to read
339343and write data from the shards, but no chunk migrations or splits will
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