Re: Using multiple drives and non-CFS format to improve search performance

2010-08-27 Thread Stefan Nikolic
Sanne, I'd prefer to use symlinks for existing, static indexes, but I'm really glad you showed me FileSwitchDirectory. I think it will be useful for me in the future. Thanks for your advice! Any tips on how to convert an existing CFS index to non-CFS? I'm aware of the extractor in IndexReader, bu

Re: Using multiple drives and non-CFS format to improve search performance

2010-08-26 Thread Sanne Grinovero
Hi Stefan, you might want to consider org.apache.lucene.store.FileSwitchDirectory before going for the symlinks approach. Sorry I don't know the effect nor recommended file types, I would naively start setting the smallest on SSD, then perform tests, but that's possibly not the best scenario: under

Using multiple drives and non-CFS format to improve search performance

2010-08-26 Thread Stefan Nikolic
Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out the effects on search performance of using the non-CFS format and spreading the various underlying files to different disks/media types. For example, I'm considering moving a segment's various .t* term-related files onto a solid-state drive, the .fdx/.fdt stor