elasticsearch/elasticsearch — pull request #3539 by imotov (2013-08-19 22:00:04+00:00)
Title: Don't recover a shard if it just failed on this node and wasn't reassign...

...ed to this node by master yet.

When recovery of a shard fails on a node, the node sends notification to the master with information about the failure. During the period between the shard failure and the time when notification about the failure reaches the master, any changes in shard allocations can trigger the node with the failed shard to allocate this shard again. This allocation (especially if successful) creates a ripple effect of the shard going through failure/started states in order to match the delayed states processed by master. Under certain condition, a node involved in this process might generate warning messages: "marked shard as started, but shard has not been created, mark shard as failed".

This fix makes sure that nodes keep track of failed shard allocations and will not try to allocate such shards repeatedly while waiting for the failure notification to be processed by master.