If you are using single disk machines, then all your segments will be created in the one data path (ie system directory). On linux with a package install, that's usually /var/lib/elasticsearch/
Regards, Mark Walkom Infrastructure Engineer Campaign Monitor email: [email protected] web: www.campaignmonitor.com On 8 May 2014 16:59, Michael Salmon <[email protected]> wrote: > As far as I can tell ES distributes segments over all data paths and if > you have reliable disks i.e. raid 0 etc. then this is a good policy but if > you are using single disks then failure of a single disk can affect all > shards on a node. I am pretty sure that ES can recover from such a failure > but in my case it means that I am going to go from a few TB that needs to > be copied to tens of TB. > > Does anyone have any practical experience of disk failure and recovery? > > Are there any settings to force all segments in a shard to be created in > the same data path? > > I guess that I will need to restrict the number of disks per node and have > more nodes instead. > > /Michael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ffcf28f9-8963-4a33-8ae9-7b357d6ed997%40googlegroups.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/ffcf28f9-8963-4a33-8ae9-7b357d6ed997%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAEM624ZiKn9BMO9wpyf9b-NLYrduVcUahuei_PropaTQ_U2ErQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
