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number_of_shards
editnumber_of_shards
editThis setting is only used by the shrink action.
action: shrink description: >- Shrink selected indices on the node with the most available space. Set the number of shards to 2. options: shrink_node: DETERMINISTIC number_of_shards: 2 filters: - filtertype: ...
The value of this setting determines the number of primary shards
in the target index. The default value is 1
.
The value for number_of_shards
must meet the following criteria:
- It must be lower than the number of primary shards in the source index.
- It must be a factor of the number of primary shards in the source index.