What happens to the Index if the IndexReader crashes, after I have deleted
documents, and before I have called close. Are the deletes ignored? Is the
Index screwed up? Is the filesystem screwed up (if a document is deleted new
delete-files appear) so are the delete-files still there (and can
If have a question about transactions .
Lucene doesn`t support transactions but I find it very important and I think it
is possible to add some kind of rollback/commit functionality to make sure the
index doesn`t corrupt..
With lucene every segment is immutable (this is a perfect starting
If my understanding is correct, unless you are using JNI, you should never
be able to crash the JVM using only java code. We've had a lot of crash
problems with Sun's JVM, especially in server mode (on Linux, not Windows).
We don't have any JNI code (only the JVM itself and the database driver).
