Remote fallback is implemented on remote unavailability

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated remote availability documentation to reflect automatic remote fallback behavior. When a chosen remote is unreachable, the system now queries an alternate available remote for shard content. Clarified that results may only be missing when no remote exists for that shard.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Documentation updated to clarify remote availability behavior during shard replication. The text now describes automatic fallback to alternate remotes when the chosen remote is unreachable, while still noting that results can be missing if no remote exists for a shard.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
Documentation resources/self_hosting/sharding/configure_replication.mdx	Updated remote availability section to reflect automatic remote fallback behavior instead of guaranteed missing results, with clarification on best-effort guarantees when no remote exists for a shard.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Poem

🐰 A single line changed, a story retold,
Remote fallback flows, more clever than cold,
When one path fails, another shall guide,
Best-effort logistics, with nowhere to hide! 📚✨

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately describes the main change: documenting the implementation of remote fallback behavior when a remote becomes unavailable, which is the core update reflected in the documentation file.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Verify each finding against the current code and only fix it if needed.

Inline comments:
In `@resources/self_hosting/sharding/configure_replication.mdx`:
- Line 92: Rewrite the sentence to remove the contradiction by explicitly
stating that an unreachable remote is skipped and that another remote for the
same shard will be used as a fallback; split into two short sentences (e.g., "If
the remote assigned to a shard is unreachable, that remote is skipped.
Meilisearch will try another remote for the same shard to retrieve its content;
if none are available, the shard's results will be missing.") — update the
sentence in the configure_replication.mdx paragraph that begins "Meilisearch
supports automatic remote fallback" accordingly.

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