I don't know. I think this could happen in the future but unsure though. May be Igor could answer this?
Here is a related doc PR: https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/pull/7654 -- David Pilato | Technical Advocate | Elasticsearch.com @dadoonet | @elasticsearchfr Le 18 septembre 2014 à 16:35:14, Tomcsányi, Domonkos ([email protected]) a écrit: Thank you for the answer, but may I know why? What is the reason behind this? thanks, Domonkos 2014.09.18. 16:15 keltezéssel, David Pilato írta: > Only metadata are compressed. > > -- > David ;-) > Twitter : @dadoonet / @elasticsearchfr / @scrutmydocs > >> Le 18 sept. 2014 à 15:36, "Tomcsányi, Domonkos" <[email protected]> a >> écrit : >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I just started experimenting with the cool snapshot feature of ES (using ES >> 1.3.2 on Ubuntu 14.04) using curator. I created a new repository on a >> mounted NFS storage, using only the default options (compression turned on). >> I checked it using curl: >> >> user@myserver:~# curl -XGET >> 'http://IP_ADDRESS:9200/_snapshot/logBack?pretty' >> { >> "logBack" : { >> "type" : "fs", >> "settings" : { >> "compress" : "true", >> "location" : "/es_snapshots" >> } >> } >> } >> >> So, after that I used curator to create a snapshot of some older indices. >> The process finished after some minutes, so I decided to have a look at the >> files it created. It turned out that the snapshot's files take up exactly as >> much space as the indices did originally while they were in the cluster, so >> no compression happened at all. This is kind of a problem for me, because I >> assumed that compression will greatly reduce the size of the indices I put >> in a snapshot. So is there anything I'm doing wrong? >> >> Thank you, >> Domonkos >> >> -- >> 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/541ADFEF.7080800%40modit.hu. >> >> 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/541AED9F.4030007%40modit.hu. 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/etPan.541aee74.625558ec.b066%40MacBook-Air-de-David.local. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
