Metaspace Life Cycle

A metaspace is created when the first process connects to it, and disappears when the last process disconnects from it. The metaspace grows or shrinks automatically as members connect to it and disconnect from it.

Initially, a metaspace contains only system spaces. As users create spaces in the metaspace, the definition of those spaces (along with other administrative data) is stored in system spaces.

If you implement the ActiveSpaces data persistence feature, you can persist data to local storage. However, space and field definitions are not persisted in existing spaces after the last metaspace disconnects from it.

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