I want to create a new index with bigger amount of shards and copy my data across. _reindex would probably be the best solution, but I expected split to do what I wanted. So I have 38gb 1shard index and I wanted to split it into 4 shards index. I expected new index to have same amount of store.size…

Does _split actually splits data or just copies it across shards

Christian_Dahlqvist (Christian Dahlqvist) September 26, 2022, 12:04pm 3

I would recommend looking at the discusion in this recent thread.

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