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@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ Shrinking works as follows:
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* Then it hard-links segments from the source index into the target index. (If
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the file system doesn't support hard-linking, then all segments are copied
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- into the new index, which is a much more time consuming process.)
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+ into the new index, which is a much more time consuming process. Also if using
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+ multiple data paths, shards on different data paths require a full copy of
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+ segment files if they are not on the same disk since hardlinks don’t work across
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+ disks)
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* Finally, it recovers the target index as though it were a closed index which
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had just been re-opened.
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