Aad Nales wrote:
1. can I have one or multiple searchers open when I open a writer?
2. can I have one or multiple readers open when I open a writer?
Yes, with one caveat: if you've called the IndexReader methods delete(),
undelete() or setNorm() then you may not open an IndexWriter until
you've c
Francesco Bellomi wrote:
The only problem is that, as lucene 1.4rc2, FSDirectory is 'final'.
Please submit a patch to lucene-dev to make FSDirectory non-final.
In fact, a third architectural approach would be to define an API for
"pluggable" lock implementations: IMHO that would be more robust to
Doug, thanks for your suggestions!
I will implement your solution and make it public.
We already use a 1.4 JVM, so we have no problems with that.
The only problem is that, as lucene 1.4rc2, FSDirectory is 'final'; I would
go for the subclassing solution if you can make it not final; otherwise, if
Francesco Bellomi wrote:
we are experiencing some difficulties in using Lucene with a NFS filesystem.
Basically, locking seems not to work properly, since it appears that
attempted concurring writing on the index (from different VMs) are not
blocked, and this often causes the index to be corrupted.
