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Today you can mount a snapshot of a searchable snapshot index, but the
shard fails to allocate since the underlying snapshot is devoid of
content. Doing this is a mistake, you probably meant to restore the
index instead, so this commit rejects it earlier with a more helpful
message.

Closes #68792

Today you can mount a snapshot of a searchable snapshot index, but the
shard fails to allocate since the underlying snapshot is devoid of
content. Doing this is a mistake, you probably meant to restore the
index instead, so this commit rejects it earlier with a more helpful
message.

Closes elastic#68792
@DaveCTurner DaveCTurner requested a review from dakrone February 10, 2021 12:16
@elasticmachine elasticmachine added the Team:Distributed (Obsolete) Meta label for distributed team (obsolete). Replaced by Distributed Indexing/Coordination. label Feb 10, 2021
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LGTM, much clearer :)

@DaveCTurner DaveCTurner merged commit 6d5ab2d into elastic:master Feb 10, 2021
@DaveCTurner DaveCTurner deleted the 2021-02-10-fail-on-remount branch February 10, 2021 16:41
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Today you can mount a snapshot of a searchable snapshot index, but the
shard fails to allocate since the underlying snapshot is devoid of
content. Doing this is a mistake, you probably meant to restore the
index instead, so this commit rejects it earlier with a more helpful
message.

Closes #68792
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Mounting a previously searchable snapshotted index leads to extremely confusing errors about translog failure

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