Hello, I have a bunch of indices that I've remotely re-indexed into a single node as a sort of a backup, these won't need to be written to anymore so I'd like to make them smaller, if possible. What would be the correct way of setting index.codec to best_compression on these existing indices? Man…

Hi @VamPikmin You will notice from the docs here that index.codec is a static setting meaning it can not be changed while the index is open and if it is changed it does not take effect until the index is merged index.codec The default value compresses stored data with LZ4 compression, but this c…

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stephenb (Stephen Brown) December 4, 2022, 2:24am 4

If they are each single node clusters... Then only one can write to the repository.

Better / recommended would be 2 repositories which can just be 2 different paths ... Each with only one writer.

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