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| author | Jason Tedor <jason@tedor.me> | 2016-08-17 12:13:09 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-08-17 12:13:09 -0400 |
| commit | d4dec26aa00ced5ead648881301a035272210288 (patch) | |
| tree | cc186dacd1decc7379477ec41aa7b5f613f48256 | |
| parent | 312a7d45ba4662d11dbb5981cd3b826c9c924ca0 (diff) | |
Update max local storage nodes docs
This commit updates the max local storage nodes docs to reflect that the
default is now one after 1f0673c9bd7e26ddf5ce55c6a184db2dbf4c778a.
Relates #20029
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/reference/modules/node.asciidoc | 21 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/reference/modules/node.asciidoc b/docs/reference/modules/node.asciidoc index 29379a2d99..e1cc3e0b86 100644 --- a/docs/reference/modules/node.asciidoc +++ b/docs/reference/modules/node.asciidoc @@ -281,21 +281,16 @@ your data! The RPM and Debian distributions do this for you already. [[max-local-storage-nodes]] === `node.max_local_storage_nodes` -The <<data-path,data path>> can be shared by multiple nodes, even by nodes -from different clusters. This is very useful for testing failover and -different configurations on your development machine. In production, however, -it is recommended to run only one node of Elasticsearch per server. +The <<data-path,data path>> can be shared by multiple nodes, even by nodes from different +clusters. This is very useful for testing failover and different configurations on your development +machine. In production, however, it is recommended to run only one node of Elasticsearch per server. -To prevent more than one node from sharing the same data path, add this -setting to the `elasticsearch.yml` config file: +By default, Elasticsearch is configured to prevent more than one node from sharing the same data +path. To allow for more than one node (e.g., on your development machine), use the setting +`node.max_local_storage_nodes` and set this to a positve integer larger than one. -[source,yaml] ------------------------------- -node.max_local_storage_nodes: 1 ------------------------------- - -WARNING: Never run different node types (i.e. master, data) from the -same data directory. This can lead to unexpected data loss. +WARNING: Never run different node types (i.e. master, data) from the same data directory. This can +lead to unexpected data loss. [float] == Other node settings |