Use SimpleFSLockFactory. The default, NativeFSLockFactory, doesn't play well with NFS.
And a warning: lucene does work on NFS but you may run into problems if your index has a lot of modifications and/or is accessed from different servers. -- Ian. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Saurabh Agarwal <srbh.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Lucene 3.0.0 to index (with the demo application IndexFiles) a 6 > GB corpus which is on NFS, more over I am storing my index on NFS too. But > when I run the program > I get following exception > > > > caught a class org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException > with message: Lock obtain timed out: > NativeFSLock@/usr/home/saurabh/index/write.lock: > java.io.IOException: Operation not supported > > Please Help out > > > Regards > Saurabh Agarwal > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
