On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > So I recently had some data loss (non solr related) on an ext4 > filesystem (ubuntu jaunty alpha5). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/317781 > > The upshot? It's not really a filesystem bug... it's slightly > different semantics that are still allowed by posix, applications that > aren't careful enough, applications that rewrite their files often, > combined with a larger window before data hits the disk in ext4. > > Lucene already handles this by explicitly calling fsync on the index > files before writing out and syncing the segments file that refers to > all the index files. It seems like Solr should do the same when > replicating files? It's especially important in the case of > replicating config files... if that gets messed up from a > crash-reboot, Solr wouldn't be able to come back up. hi yonik , if you can point to the place (code) where lucene does this we can copy the same code to Solr Replication as well > > -Yonik > http://www.lucidimagination.com >
-- --Noble Paul
