Reopening is based entirely on the latest segments_N file present in the index.
Lucene loads that file and checks if it refers to any new segments not
already open and if so opens those new ones. And segments in common
with what the reader already has open (ie same segment name) are
simply reused
Hey there,
I have a doubt about the behaviour of IndexReader.reopen.
I have a tomcat server holding a lucene index over an IndexSearcher. If I
move the index.folder to index.folder.old and another index, let's say
index.folder.2 to index.folder and then I reopen readers, something weird
happen if