Re: Data duplication using Cloud+HDFS+Mirroring

2013-09-30 Thread Isaac Hebsh
Hi Greg, Did you get an answer? I'm interested in the same question. More generally, what are the benefits of HdfsDirectoryFactory, besides the transparent restore of the shard contents in case of a disk failure, and the ability to rebuild index using MR? Is the next statement exact? blocks of a p

Data duplication using Cloud+HDFS+Mirroring

2013-08-07 Thread Greg Walters
While testing Solr's new ability to store data and transaction directories in HDFS I added an additional core to one of my testing servers that was configured as a backup (active but not leader) core for a shard elsewhere. It looks like this extra core copies the data into its own directory rath