Hi all， I am a lucene newbie:)
It seems that lucene doesn't support distributed indexing:( As some IR research papers mentioned, when the documents collection become large, the index will be large also. When one single machine can't hold all the index, some strategies are used to solve it. such as that we can part the whole collection into several small sub-collections. According to different partitions, we can got different strategies : document-partittion and term-partition. but I don't know why not lucene support these ways:( can't anyone explain it ? or maybe lucene use other ways to solve this problem? Hope for your replies :) Best Wishes Samuel Guo
