Deleting _recovery_source

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Hi everyone,

I'm on Elasticsearch 8.6.2.

I wanted to reduce disk usage of my indices, and noticed that the _recovery_source takes up quite some space.

I tried setting index.soft_deletes.enabled to false, but index creation wasn't allowed by elasticsearch with that.

I then tried setting index.soft_deletes.retention_lease.period to "10s" and called the forcemerge API after writing some documents. This didn't delete the _recovery_source. I restarted elasticsearch and retried forcemerge, but it made no difference.

I keep retrying the forcemerge API and after some random number of attempts, it does eventually delete the _recovery_source.

But is there a way to reliably make elasticsearch delete _recovery_source?

Thank you

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