This page: http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_2/fileformats.html#file-names, when combined with what Yonik said may help you figure it out...
And if you're still stumped, please post the <fieldType> and <field> definitions you used.... Best Erick On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Robert Petersen <rober...@buy.com> wrote: > OK I have a 30 gb index where there are lots of sparsly populated int > fields and then one title field and one catchall field with title and > everything else we want as keywords, the catchall field. I figure it is > the biggest field in our documents which as I mentioned is otherwise > composed of a variety if int fields and a title. > > > > So my puzzlement is that my biggest field is copied into a double > metaphone field and now I added another copyfield to also copy the > catchall field into a newly created soundex field for an experiment to > compare the effectiveness of the two. I expected the index to grow by > at least 25% to 30%, but it barely grew at all. Can someone explain > this to me? Thanks! J > > > >