On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > Here's the issue: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3255 > > It's because we read the first 0 int to be an ancient segments file > format, and the next 0 int to mean there are no segments. Yuck! > > This format pre-dates Lucene 1.9, so the fix for 3.x is to stop > supporting this ancient format... but I don't see any easy way to fix > this pre-3.x where we must (by our back compat rules) support such an > ancient index.
It's not possible to do something based on the existence of further zeroes after the first 8 bytes? I would expect the original format to have no additional data after that, but I don't exactly know whether a corrupt file could be exactly 8 bytes long... TX --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
