diff --git a/.idea/vcs.xml b/.idea/vcs.xml
index 48557884a8893..3b802c80a7487 100644
--- a/.idea/vcs.xml
+++ b/.idea/vcs.xml
@@ -1,20 +1,20 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project version="4">
-    <component name="IssueNavigationConfiguration">
-        <option name="links">
-            <list>
-                <IssueNavigationLink>
-                    <option name="issueRegexp" value="#(\d+)" />
-                    <option name="linkRegexp" value="https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pulls/$1" />
-                </IssueNavigationLink>
-                <IssueNavigationLink>
-                    <option name="issueRegexp" value="#(\d+)" />
-                    <option name="linkRegexp" value="https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/$1" />
-                </IssueNavigationLink>
-            </list>
-        </option>
-    </component>
+  <component name="IssueNavigationConfiguration">
+    <option name="links">
+      <list>
+        <IssueNavigationLink>
+          <option name="issueRegexp" value="#(\d+)" />
+          <option name="linkRegexp" value="https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/pulls/$1" />
+        </IssueNavigationLink>
+        <IssueNavigationLink>
+          <option name="issueRegexp" value="#(\d+)" />
+          <option name="linkRegexp" value="https://github.com/opensearch-project/OpenSearch/issues/$1" />
+        </IssueNavigationLink>
+      </list>
+    </option>
+  </component>
   <component name="VcsDirectoryMappings">
     <mapping directory="$PROJECT_DIR$" vcs="Git" />
   </component>
-</project>
+</project>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
index 286fb1ebae74d..7fd80340ec7bd 100644
--- a/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
+++ b/server/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/opensearch/indices/replication/SegmentReplicationIT.java
@@ -234,14 +234,7 @@ public void testDeleteOperations() throws Exception {
         final String nodeA = internalCluster().startNode();
         final String nodeB = internalCluster().startNode();
 
-        createIndex(
-            INDEX_NAME,
-            Settings.builder()
-                .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_SHARDS, SHARD_COUNT)
-                .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS, REPLICA_COUNT)
-                .put(IndexMetadata.SETTING_SEGMENT_REPLICATION, true)
-                .build()
-        );
+        createIndex(INDEX_NAME);
         ensureGreen(INDEX_NAME);
         client().prepareIndex(INDEX_NAME).setId("1").setSource("foo", "bar").setRefreshPolicy(WriteRequest.RefreshPolicy.WAIT_UNTIL).get();
 
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngine.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngine.java
index 20dc03684d5ad..97c02256e60ef 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngine.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/engine/InternalEngine.java
@@ -718,12 +718,11 @@ private ExternalReaderManager createReaderManager(RefreshWarmerListener external
 
     private DirectoryReader getDirectoryReader() throws IOException {
         // for segment replication: replicas should create the reader from store and, we don't want an open IW on replicas.
-        /* We should always wrap replicas with a SoftDeletesDirectoryReaderWrapper as we use soft deletes when segment replication is on for
-        deletions */
+        // We should always wrap the DirectoryReader used on replicas with SoftDeletesDirectoryReaderWrapper so that we filter out soft deletes
         if (engineConfig.isReadOnly()) {
             return new SoftDeletesDirectoryReaderWrapper(DirectoryReader.open(store.directory()), Lucene.SOFT_DELETES_FIELD);
         }
-        return DirectoryReader.open(indexWriter, true, true);
+        return DirectoryReader.open(indexWriter);
     }
 
     @Override