OK I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5024 ...
Geoff can you describe your idea there? Thanks. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Michael McCandless <luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Geoff Cooney <cooney.ge...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The problem is we can't reliably differentiate commit-in-progress from >>> a corrupt first commit... >> >> I think you can tell them apart with high probability because the checksum >> is off by exactly one(at least in lucene 3.5 where I'm looking). It does >> seem dangerous to rely on an implementation detail of the pre-commit like >> this, though. Is there a reason lucene couldn't write a "isCommitted" byte >> to segments_n and use this byte to detect pre-committed segments reliably? > > I'll open a new issue to explore these ideas ... it would be best if > we could detect "incomplete first commit". > > Mike McCandless > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
