Can't reopen index if you closed it without enough nodes to host half the lucene indexes in each shard

gistfile1.sh

# Launch two nodes
curl -XDELETE "http://localhost:9200/test_close?pretty=true"
# Create more replicas then we have nodes
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close?pretty=true" -d '{
  "settings": {
    "number_of_shards": 5,
    "number_of_replicas": 3
  }
}'
# Wait until all the shards that are going to allocate have allocated
sleep 5
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true"
# Close the index
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close/_close?pretty=true"
# Wait a bit and open it
sleep 2
curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9200/test_close/_open?pretty=true"
watch -d curl -s -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_cluster/health?pretty=true"