So upon rebooting of a node, I should NOT attempt to remove all the 
existing ES data before re-joining the cluster because these data might be 
useful?

Yes, I meant orphaned shards.

Thanks.
Yongtao

On Monday, June 23, 2014 12:02:53 PM UTC-7, Jörg Prante wrote:
>
> Yes, if the recovery of an index succeeds, the shards of the rejoined node 
> for the index will be used. Do you mean orphaned shards, where the index 
> does no longer exist?
>
> Jörg
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Yongtao You <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quick question, please. If a node re-joins the cluster after it got 
>> rebooted a few minutes ago, will ES make use of the old shards on this node 
>> under any circumstances? Are they ever going to be used? For example, if a 
>> shard does not exist anywhere else other than an old copy on this node, 
>> will it be used?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Yongtao
>>
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