Tried and failed. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1902
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:24 PM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cassandra 'compacts' the way Lucene 'merges' segments. One > interesting new feature built into Lucene is [1] which avoids loading > the source files into the system IO cache on compaction / merge. > > Perhaps Cassandra already has this feature? > > 1. > https://builds.apache.org/job/Lucene-trunk/javadoc/all/org/apache/lucene/store/DirectIOLinuxDirectory.html > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com