Can anyone provide insights on the files that ElasticSearch creates on the filesystem? Outside of the Lucene files, what are the significance of the state, global and other various files. These files constitute the local gateway, but I was hoping for a better rundown then me scanning the code! I…

The ElasticSearch directory layout

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The ElasticSearch directory layout