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> Subject: Re: mutability of lucene index files
>
> Hi Erick,
>
> Thank you.
>
> Deleting old files is fine (and expected), so it sounds like the segment files
> are immutable (prior to deletion) and the file that handles deletion is
> renamed with every change, so
Hi Erick,
Thank you.
Deleting old files is fine (and expected), so it sounds like the segment
files are immutable (prior to deletion) and the file that handles deletion
is renamed with every change, so it's effectively immutable, too.
That leaves the segments_* files and segments.gen, if I under
The Lucene index segment files are immutable, once they're closed,
they are never changed. These are things like _1.fdt, _1.tim, etc. All
of the files with the same prefix (_1 in my example) comprise a single
"segment". Segments _will_, however, disappear. During indexing, two
or more segment are c
