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Michael McCandless commented on LUCENE-3218:
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Why not put that file pointer at the very end of the
file? So that the read-time sequence of actions is: seek to 8 bytes before the
end, read the file pointer, seek back to beginning of metadata.
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I would rather not rely on metadata (file length) when reading, only the
contents of the file.
I think append-only filesystems (eg HDFS) can make their own impl that uses the
file length instead (like AppendingCodecc).
> Make CFS appendable
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>
> Key: LUCENE-3218
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3218
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: core/index
> Affects Versions: 4.0
> Reporter: Simon Willnauer
> Assignee: Simon Willnauer
> Fix For: 3.4, 4.0
>
> Attachments: LUCENE-3218.patch, LUCENE-3218.patch, LUCENE-3218.patch,
> LUCENE-3218.patch, LUCENE-3218_3x.patch, LUCENE-3218_test_fix.patch,
> LUCENE-3218_tests.patch
>
>
> Currently CFS is created once all files are written during a flush / merge.
> Once on disk the files are copied into the CFS format which is basically a
> unnecessary for some of the files. We can at any time write at least one file
> directly into the CFS which can save a reasonable amount of IO. For instance
> stored fields could be written directly during indexing and during a Codec
> Flush one of the written files can be appended directly. This optimization is
> a nice sideeffect for lucene indexing itself but more important for DocValues
> and LUCENE-3216 we could transparently pack per field files into a single
> file only for docvalues without changing any code once LUCENE-3216 is
> resolved.
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