On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Yonik Seeley > <yo...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: >> I'm actually starting to lean toward "slice" instead of "logical shard".
Alternate terminology could be "index" for the actual physical lucene lindex (and also enough of the URL that unambiguously identifies it), and then "shard" could be the logical entity. But I've kind of gotten used to thinking of shards as the actual physical queryable things... -Yonik http://www.lucidimagination.com