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Yannick Welsch commented on LUCENE-9264:
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I've opened a pull request for the removal (linked in this issue) and one for
the deprecation (see sub-task).
> Remove SimpleFSDirectory in favor of NIOFsDirectory
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>
> Key: LUCENE-9264
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9264
> Project: Lucene - Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Yannick Welsch
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: master (9.0)
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> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> {{SimpleFSDirectory}} looks to duplicate what's already offered by
> {{NIOFsDirectory}}. The only difference is that {{SimpleFSDirectory}} is
> using non-positional reads on the {{FileChannel}} (i.e., reads that are
> stateful, changing the current position), and {{SimpleFSDirectory}} therefore
> has to externally synchronize access to the read method.
> On Windows, positional reads are not supported, which is why {{FileChannel}}
> is already internally using synchronization to guarantee only access by one
> thread at a time for positional reads (see {{read(ByteBuffer dst, long
> position)}} in {{FileChannelImpl}}, and {{FileDispatcher.needsPositionLock}},
> which returns true on Windows) and the JDK implementation for Windows is
> emulating positional reads by using non-positional ones, see
> [http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/jdk8/jdk/file/687fd7c7986d/src/windows/native/sun/nio/ch/FileDispatcherImpl.c#l139].
> This means that on Windows, there should be no difference between
> {{NIOFsDirectory}} and {{SimpleFSDirectory}} in terms of performance (it
> should be equally poor as both implementations only allow one thread at a
> time to read). On Linux/Mac, {{NIOFsDirectory}} is superior to
> {{SimpleFSDirectory}}, however, as positional reads (pread) can be done
> concurrently.
> My proposal is to remove {{SimpleFSDirectory}} and replace its uses with
> {{NIOFsDirectory}}, given how similar these two directory implementations are
> ({{SimpleFSDirectory}} isn't really simpler).
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