[DOCS] Add blurb about data_path not needing to include index name

Resolves #11497
(node.enable_custom_paths is no longer used)
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Lee Hinman 2016-02-21 13:11:45 -07:00
parent 2e3160824c
commit 5451763935

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@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index' -d '
"number_of_replicas" : 4,
"data_path": "/opt/data/my_index",
"shadow_replicas": true
}
}
}'
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@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ ensure that the Elasticsearch process has the correct permissions to read from
and write to the directory used in the `index.data_path` setting.
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The `data_path` does not have to contain the index name, in this case,
"my_index" was used but it could easily also have been "/opt/data/"
An index that has been created with the `index.shadow_replicas` setting set to
"true" will not replicate document operations to any of the replica shards,
instead, it will only continually refresh. Once segments are available on the