<p dir="auto">it would have performance advantage over client side reindex command and it will increase availability of reindexing because not every client supports it.</p>
<p dir="auto">Probably not a high priority or must have feature, but this would be extremely convenient.</p>
<p dir="auto">This would allow one to:</p>
<ul dir="auto">
<li>Switch gateways</li>
<li>Upgrade to new version with incompatible gateway</li>
<li>Clone an entire cluster</li>
</ul>
<p dir="auto">Based on this discussion here:<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/a/elasticsearch.com/group/users/browse_thread/thread/43b534ca360d808f?pli=1" rel="nofollow">http://groups.google.com/a/elasticsearch.com/group/users/browse_thread/thread/43b534ca360d808f?pli=1</a></p>