Source-only snapshots create a modified segment info file with the same id as the original segment

[fcofdez]

Source-only snapshots create slightly modified segments since it has to remove certain meta-information that doesn't apply to the segments that only contains stored fields. The problem is that the modified segment reuses the original segment info ID that it is supposed to uniquely identify a segment, see:

elasticsearch/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/snapshots/sourceonly/SourceOnlySnapshot.java

Lines 215 to 219 in 9958c3c

	BytesRef segmentId = new BytesRef(si.getId());
	boolean exists = existingSegments.containsKey(segmentId);
	if (exists == false) {
	SegmentInfo newSegmentInfo = new SegmentInfo(targetDirectory, si.getVersion(), si.getMinVersion(), si.name, si.maxDoc(),
	false, si.getCodec(), si.getDiagnostics(), si.getId(), si.getAttributes(), null);

#53463 introduced an optimization that allows to just soft-link the stored fields segment files instead of copying them, saving up to 50% in shard storage. Since stored fields files contains a header with the original segment id for integrity checks this should be the same as the original segment id for this optimization to work.

This breaks the contract that Lucene provides regarding uniqueness of segment ids and it prevents some enhancements such as #77695.

[elasticmachine]

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[fcofdez]

We (@elastic/es-distributed) have discussed this issue and we're leaning towards forbidding restoring source-only snapshots in closed indices as it doesn't seem to be a reasonable workflow, but there's still some discussion needed.

[elasticsearchmachine]

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