: Subject: Any way to recover a corrupt index from a "live" IndexReader?
There are wasy in code to read from an IndexReader to populate a new index (ie: using the MergeIndex class) but i don't know of anyway to do that from a running JVM. I suppose in theory there is probably a way to write a custom request handler can get a direct refrence to SolrCore/IndexReader that is not the one that loaded it (via the CoreContainer, or SolrDispatchFilter, or if nothing else by looking at the FieldCache keys since they are kept in a static Map) and if you get that working then in theory you could load a new core that used that custom request handler to "merge" some the IndexReader from some other core into a new (ie: empty) index. But i don't know anyone whose ever done anything like that ... it's sort of like trying to change the oil in a plane while it's flying. -Hoss
