I work on an experimental cluster of ES nodes running on Windows Server machines. Once in a while we have a need to reboot machines. The initial state - cluster is green and well balanced. One machine is gracefully taken offline and then after necessary service is performed it comes back online. All the hardware and file system content is intact. As soon as ES service starts on that machine, it assumes that there is no usable data locally and recovers as much data as it deems necessary for balancing from other nodes.
This behavior puzzles me, because most of the data shards stored on that machine file system can be reused as they are. Cluster stores logs, so all indices except those for the current day never ever change until they get deleted. Can't ES node detect that it has perfect copies of some (actually most) of the shards and instead of copying them over just mark them as up to date? I suspect I don't know about some step to enable this behavior and I'm looking to enable it. Any advice? Thank you! Konstantin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elasticsearch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/4fb2d8bc-7787-43e3-8c66-e241945d496b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
