have you looked at the coreadminhandler? say you always write to "newcore"
after say august , you cretae andn empty core "core-aug" and swap it out with "newcore". Make every core use the same instancedir with different dataDir On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Marcus Herou<marcus.he...@tailsweep.com> wrote: > Hi. > > We are now rethinking our sharding strategy to shard on the blog entry > publishdate instead of just a simple hash. This is due to that the index > size is growing too much to be handled in one index. > > Thing is that we want to select a core based on the publishdate of the > entry. Let's say we have one core per month. > > A new core need to be added at the very latest 00:00 the first day each > month. How would I do that dynamically ? > > I am thinking something like this: > > *A core dir which serves as template (i.e. contains no data) > > * A cronjob which: > -Copies the tpl-dir -> $corename-$year-$month > -Updates the solr.xml > -Restarts solr (can one only reload the solr.xml file ?) > > Of course we get issues on the client since we need to figure out which > cores to search in for each query... > The benefit though is that it seems alot easier to manage the indexes, > especially that we are able to choose which indices to search in to utilize > the memory better. We probably need to distribute a file to the clients so > they know where each index reside (or have the conf in a DB) > > Any thoughts ? > > Cheers > > //Marcus > > > > > > -- > Marcus Herou CTO and co-founder Tailsweep AB > +46702561312 > marcus.he...@tailsweep.com > http://www.tailsweep.com/ > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
