NFS isn't the first choice. That said, numbers of organizations _doou have to manally remove _ use NFS for their Lucene indexes. See the recommendations here: https://lucene.apache.org/core/5_4_0/core/org/apache/lucene/store/NativeFSLockFactory.html
What it really amounts to is that you may find yourself in situations where you have to manually clean up lock fines if Solr exits abnormally, so don't 'kill -9'. And follow the advice above for configuring your lock factory in solrcofnig.xml Best, Erick On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:37 AM, Michael Joyner (NewsRx) <mich...@newsrx.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Can the Solr indexes be safely stored and used via mounted NFS shares? > > -Mike >