# Disable Source File Compression(Fdt File)

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 20, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905 "2020-06-20T08:06:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Senkyy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Senkyy1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Senkyy1)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 8:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/1 "2020-06-20T08:06:50Z")

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Is There Any Way to Disable Compression In Elasticsearch. by make some changes in compressingstoredfieldreader/writer file or anywhere..i m try this from last 48 hours. but not get it..please help regarding this.

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/2 "2020-06-20T09:47:12Z")

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Why would you want to do this?

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### Author: ![Senkyy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Senkyy1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Senkyy1)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 9:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/3 "2020-06-20T09:51:06Z")

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i want to see performance that my source file size with no compression and after applying any compression like LZ4,DEFLATE. someone gave me that task..

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### Author: ![Senkyy1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Senkyy1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Senkyy1)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/4 "2020-06-20T09:52:52Z")

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if it is possible then please help me. i already stuck on this from las  
t 48 hours.

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### Author: ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/5 "2020-06-20T10:06:09Z")

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It is not configurable, so would require code changes. I do not know where.

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2020, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-source-file-compression-fdt-file/237905/6 "2020-07-18T10:06:12Z")

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