Version 7.1.1 Amazing thing. Director become file After a power failure

After power off system while writing and start elasticsearch

Caused by: org.elasticsearch.gateway.WriteStateException: failed to open state directory /disks/data5/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices/PQDYiAG4SV2bc9Wrt59T8A/_state
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.write(MetaDataStateFormat.java:239) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.write(MetaDataStateFormat.java:209) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaStateService.writeIndex(MetaStateService.java:224) ~[elasticsearch-7.1.1.jar:7.1.1]
... 16 more
Caused by: java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /disks/data5/elasticsearch/nodes/0/indices/PQDYiAG4SV2bc9Wrt59T8A/_state: Not a directory
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:91) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:384) ~[?:?]
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:674) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:781) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:767) ~[?:1.8.0_201]
at org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory.(FSDirectory.java:157) ~[lucene-core-8.0.0.jar:8.0.0 2ae4746365c1ee72a0047ced7610b2096e438979 - jimczi

drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Oct 12 09:23 fbhBoVdFQceJg0_Gqno7kw
drwxr-xr-x 4 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Oct 12 09:23 ff7IJZkJTGirPkUW6iXfcA
drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Oct 12 09:23 fiIAl-MHRT-q8m8vWv1ZGA
drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Oct 12 09:23 FiLw3CzhTjizG9og6O6m4w
drwxr-xr-x 3 elasticsearch elasticsearch 4096 Oct 12 09:23 FkqpJIydR0-wZ-F4bMsKrA
-rw-r--r-- 1 elasticsearch elasticsearch 598 Oct 12 09:23 FKYr1AGQQ3-Ori91xmHRHA

just see the last one. It become a file. But the problem just come once.

As discussed here, your disks have a volatile write cache that loses (and apparently corrupts) data on a power loss:

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