Doron Cohen wrote: > Doug Cutting wrote: > > > Therefore, a "semi compound" segment file can be defined, that would be > > > made of 4 files (instead of 1): > > > - File 0: .fdx .tis .tvx > > > - File 1: .fdt .tii .tvd > > > - File 2: .frq .tvf > > > - File 3: .fnm .prx .fN > > > > I think this is a promising direction. Perhaps instead of adding a > > third index format, we can significantly improve the non-compound format > > without too much effort. For example, simply writing all the norms into > > a single file could have a large impact on total file handles and would > > be a rather simple change. We could start with that, then see if there > > are further incremental improvements to be had. > > We can start with that - at least it would set the number of segment files > to a fixed number - 11 - currently it depends on the number of fields with > norms.
Okay, started with this step - see issue 756 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-756 > > One advantage of keeping the a plain non-compound format is educational / > debugging - it is often helpful to actually see the files being created on > disk. (Although, just concatenating all norms to a single file is simple > enough in that regard.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
