: That said, it should never in fact cause index corruption, as far as I : know. Lucene is "semi-transactional": at any & all moments you should : be able to destroy the JVM and the index will be unharmed. I would : really like to get to the bottom of why this is not the case here.
At any point you can shutdown the JVM and the index will be unharmed, but "destroying" it with "kill -9" goes a little farther then that. Lucene can't make that claim because the JVM can't even garuntee that bytes are written to physical disk when we close() an OutputStream -- all it garuntees is that the bytes have been handed to the OS. When you "kill -9" a process the OS is free to make *EVERYTHING* about that process vanish without cleaning up after it ... i'm pretty sure even pending IO operations are fair game for disappearing. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
