Add warning to settings documentation about setting number_of_replica…

…s on a closed index Issue #9566 raises the point that setting the number of shards on a closed index can lead to this index not beeing able to open again. This change in documentation is ment to warn the user about this issue.
elastic · Feb 6, 2015 · dfc0496 · dfc0496
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@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index/_settings' -d '
 }'
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+[WARNING]
+========================
+When changing the number of replicas the index needs to be open. Changing
+the number of replicas on a closed index might prevent the index to be opened correctly again.
+========================
+
 Below is the list of settings that can be changed using the update
 settings API: