# Is \_all default enable or disable in 2.1?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 26, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963 "2016-10-26T07:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![makeyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963/1 "2016-10-26T07:09:05Z")

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is \_all default enable or disable in 2.1

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**Author:** ![makeyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2016, 7:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963/2 "2016-10-26T07:09:35Z")

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I check the code and it turns out to be enable, so just come to confirm this

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 3:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963/3 "2016-10-31T15:50:07Z")

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Defaults to enabled, yes. We are [investigating](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/20925) ways to save space by  
coming up with a query time alternative to \_all. It can't work exactly the  
same way but it might be worth it to save space on disk.

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**Author:** ![makeyang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@makeyang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/makeyang)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 3:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963/4 "2016-11-01T03:24:46Z")

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thanks

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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 5, 2017, 10:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is--all-default-enable-or-disable-in-2-1/63963/5 "2017-07-05T22:08:02Z")

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