NIO.2 sounds great.Though, it will probably take a pretty long time before we can switch Lucene to Java 1.7 :(
We could write a (contrib) module that we don't ship together with the core that has a Directory implementation which uses NIO.2.
http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203 http://ronsoft.net/files/WhatsNewNIO2.pdf -Michael
