To my experience from a project, using software DBSight, Lucene runs well on a SAN environment. No experience of a NFS, but I know many indexing errors caused by NFS. Maybe the new index delete policy helps in latest version of Lucene.
-- Chris Lu ------------------------- Instant Scalable Full-Text Search On Any Database/Application site: http://www.dbsight.net demo: http://search.dbsight.com Lucene Database Search in 3 minutes: http://wiki.dbsight.com/index.php?title=Create_Lucene_Database_Search_in_3_minutes On 10/17/07, Alexander Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All! > > We use lucene 2.0.0 as the search index of our portal (liferay based) > and are trying to use it correctly in a cluster... > > I'm very foggy on wether i should share the index file using NFS (the > servers run linux) or wether we should try the jdbc store... > > We currently have the index in an NFS mounted volume, however i'm > pretty sure that the servers are not sharing locks, and don't know > that the other node exists... Both servers read and write to the > index freely currently. > > Can you give me advise as to what's best in this setup (share nfs vs > jdbc) and how to make the nodes in the cluster know about each other > so that they don't step on each others feet? > > Pointers to documentation are very welcome too! > > Thanks a lot in advance for your response! > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >