Hi, I've been using lucene for a project and it works great on the one dev. machine. Next step is to investigate the best method of deploying lucene so that multiple web servers can access the lucene directory of indexes.
I see four potential options: 1) Each web server indexes the content separately. This will potentially cause different web servers to have slightly different indexes at any given time and also duplicates the work load of indexing the content 2) Using rsync (or a similar tool) to regularly update a local lucene index directory on each web server. I imagine there will be locking issues that need to be resolved here. 3) Using a network file system that all the web servers can access. I don't have much experience in this area, but potentially latency on searches will be high? 4) Some alternative lucene specific solution that I haven't found in the wiki / lucene documentation. The indexes aim to be as real-time as possible, I currently update my IndexReaders in a background thread every 20 seconds. Does anyone have any recommendations on the best approach? Cheers, Chris
