Running with this, which works they way we want.
<dataDir>/solr/data/${solr.core.name}</dataDir>
wunder
Walter Underwood
wun...@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote:
>
> Dang it. I know better than that, but I was blindly following the docs. Which
> means the docs have a problem, since they are recommending something that
> should not be recommended.
>
> Putting variable data on a different volume is very common. Official support
> for that goes at least as far back as Unix V7 (1979), with /var. It should be
> easy to do in Solr.
>
> I expected to see the shard names as directories under /solr/data, but I now
> remember that I need to set that with a variable.
>
> Time to delete everything and rebuild everything again.
>
> wunder
> Walter Underwood
> wun...@wunderwood.org
> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>
>
>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 8:30 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2/23/2017 6:41 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
>>> I did this in the solrconfig.xml for both collections (tutors and
>>> questions).
>>>
>>> <dataDir>/solr/data</dataDir>
>>>
>>> I deleted the old collection indexes, reloaded, restarted, and created a
>>> new collection for “tutors". And I see this on the disk.
>>
>> Setting dataDir in solrconfig.xml, especially to an absolute path like
>> that, is generally not a good idea. It's VERY bad if that config will
>> be used by multiple cores. The best place to do it is in
>> core.properties, so it's part of the core definition and independent of
>> config/schema. IMHO it's best to make it a relative path. Below is a
>> core.properties file from my dev system running 6.3.0, in a
>> "cores/sparkinc_0" directory under the solr home.
>>
>> I do not see anything broken in the directory listings you provided.
>> What do you see that is misplaced?
>>
>> With SolrCloud, I wouldn't be setting dataDir *at all* -- I would let
>> Solr handle that, mostly because the config for SolrCloud is not on the
>> disk and therefore dataDir doesn't need to be separated from instanceDir.
>>
>> #Written by CorePropertiesLocator
>> #Mon Feb 06 19:24:18 UTC 2017
>> name=sparkinclive
>> loadonStartup=false
>> dataDir=../../data/sparkinc_0
>> transient=false
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Shawn
>>
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