"Andreas Guther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found the following recommendation in Lucene in Action from Eric and > Otis about where to put Lucene lock files: > > "Because of known issues with lock files and NFS, choose a directory > that doesn't reside on an NFS volume."
It's complicated. You can read about the known issues here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-673 To summarize: NFS has issues with lock files, with "write/read cache consistency" and with "delete on last close" semantics, all of which Lucene relies on. With Lucene 2.1 we have addressed the lock file and write/read cache consistency limitations. With the trunk version of Lucene (not yet released) we have addressed the "delete on last close" limitation, however you need to implement your own deletion policy (which is not hard). Details are here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-710 As far as I know, with the trunk version of Lucene, if you make your own deletion policy then NFS works fine. However, typically performance of searching/indexing over NFS will not be as good as a local filesystem. Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
