How tolerant is your project of decreased search and indexing performance? You could probably write a simple test that compares search and write speeds of local and NFS-mounted indexes and make the decision based on the results.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Jong Kim <jong.luc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > According to the Lucene In Action (Second Edition), the section 2.11.2 > "Accessing an index over a remote file system" explains that there are > issues related to accessing a Lucene index across remote file system > including NFS. > > I'm particuarly interested in NFS compatibility, and wondering if there has > been any work done to solve or mitigate this problem. Has this issue been > addressed? If not, are there some reliable work-arounds that make this > possible at the expense of some sacrifice in other areas? > > Any information would be greatly appreciated, since my project heavily > depends on the feasibility of this. > > Thanks > /Jong >
