Will turnning allow_primary on delete the exist shard?

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Hi,

We had some outage wiht ES cluster. So that we cutoff the incomming and
outgoing traffic to/from ES cluster.

but we see lots of unassigned shards and get get them allocated
automatically.

Question is, will tuning allow_primary flag on when manually allocating the
shards delete the existing data?
I did so, and saw those shards immediately became available with size 0b.

THanks,
Yang

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The docs mention this is a possibility -

allocate

Allocate an unassigned shard to a node. Accepts the index and shard for
index name and shard number, and node to allocate the shard to. It also
accepts allow_primary flag to explicitly specify that it is allowed to
explicitly allocate a primary shard (might result in data loss).

On 2 April 2015 at 14:39, yang@getblueshift.com wrote:

Hi,

We had some outage wiht ES cluster. So that we cutoff the incomming and
outgoing traffic to/from ES cluster.

but we see lots of unassigned shards and get get them allocated
automatically.

Question is, will tuning allow_primary flag on when manually allocating
the shards delete the existing data?
I did so, and saw those shards immediately became available with size 0b.

THanks,
Yang

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