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We inject an Unfollow action before Shrink because the Shrink action cannot be safely used on a following index, as it may not be fully caught up with the leader index before the "original" following index is deleted and replaced with a non-following Shrunken index. The Unfollow action will verify that 1) the index is marked as "complete", and 2) all operations up to this point have been replicated from the leader to the follower before explicitly disconnecting the follower from the leader. Injecting an Unfollow action before the Rollover action is done mainly as a convenience: This allow users to use the same lifecycle policy on both the leader and follower cluster without having to explictly modify the policy to unfollow the index, while doing what we expect users to want in most cases. |
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| apis | ||
| error-handling.asciidoc | ||
| getting-started-ilm.asciidoc | ||
| ilm-and-snapshots.asciidoc | ||
| index.asciidoc | ||
| policy-definitions.asciidoc | ||
| set-up-lifecycle-policy.asciidoc | ||
| start-stop-ilm.asciidoc | ||
| update-lifecycle-policy.asciidoc | ||
| using-policies-rollover.asciidoc | ||