Looks like there were issues with the native parts. Mike McCandless notes this in [1]. If we reuse the Lucene code, I think it'll work for Cassandra.
1. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2500 On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
