Thank you for what appears to be a <very> complete explanation describing 
all scenarios, both runtime changes and startup (based on 
elasticsearch.yml).
Enlightening that there are significant differences.
 
Tony
 

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 7:48:16 AM UTC-8, Binh Ly wrote:

> When you decrease the replicas dynamically, the data is deleted from 
> wherever nodes they reside in. Then when you increase it back dynamically, 
> ES will then make new copies of the shards on-the-fly. Also when you set 
> index.number_of_replicas in the YML file, that only applies to new indexes 
> created after start up. If you already had an existing index prior to that 
> change in the YML file, no change will be made to the replica count of that 
> prior existing index.
>

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