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Before starting to split the index with more shards, please be aware of the fact that, this operation will create several duplicate shards, select the best one and delete the remaining. So, this may This will consume 2X size of the original index you are splitting, at least momentarily until the operation is completed successfully. Once the new index is created, all shards are properly assigned, the deleted documents are merged, the new index will have almost the same size of the old index, albeit with higher number of shards. |
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