The optimize operation happens in place. I've been told that if you set "mergeFactor=2" when indexing, it will be slower but you will always have a "mostly optimized" index.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hmm... Interesting question, not that I know of. The only way > one could do this would be to intercept the newly optimized > files via a FileSwitchDirectory like implementation that knows > which new files are optimized and should "underneath" go to a > different physical path. > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Phillip Farber <pfar...@umich.edu> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to tell Solr or Lucene, when optimizing, to write the files >> that constitute the optimized index to somewhere other than >> SOLR_HOME/data/index or is there something about the optimize that requires >> the final segment to be created in SOLR_HOME/data/index? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Phil >> >> > -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com