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Description
It's preferable when searching a snapshot that the snapshotted index was force-merged to a single segment first. ILM lets you configure a suitable force-merge action in an earlier phase but does not actively encourage its use, and we also see a need to support occasional writes in the warm phase so that the index may no longer be force-merged by the time it is moved to the cold phase.
We discussed this today and decided it would be good to add a force-merge step to the searchable snapshots action. This step would be enabled by default but we'd include an option to disable it. Force-merging an already-force-merged index is a no-op so it's ok always to run this step.