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Yes, but it only works if absolute-goddamn-integrity is not a concern.

We unfortunately inherited a cluster from someone who thought it would be appropriate as a SoT for forensic data, which causes me no end of grief.

Elastic maintains a page documenting the current status of their "resiliency" efforts on Elasticsearch:

ElasticSearch doesn’t have adequate data integrity to treat it as a primary data store for most use cases.

You could do what they are doing here