On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Shai Erera<ser...@gmail.com> wrote: > What about doing a read-backwards as well? I.e., if read ahead fails, try to > read backwards --> we must be able to read any segment, no?
How would that help? Ie, IndexWriter only writes "forwards". So if a filesystem cache is stale, it must be the case that the "truth" lies forwards? Ie a cache would never lie, saying the segmetns_N file was bigger than it really is? Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org