On 1/16/07, robert engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You have the same problem if there is an existing reader open, so what is the difference? You can't remove the segments there either.
The disk space for the segments is currently removed if no one has them open... this is quite a bit different than guaranteeing that a reader in the future will be able to open an index in the past. -Yonik
On Jan 16, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > On 1/16/07, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Remind me, why do we have to update the segments file except at >> close? >> I'm sure there's a good reason, and that's central to this >> discussion. > > If segments are removed because of a merge, a new reader coming along > will have problems opening the index if the segments file isn't > updated to reflect that. > > One could keep around all old segments until a close() but that would > cost disk space. > > -Yonik
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