Re: Question regarding snapinstaller

2009-11-02 Thread Lance Norskog
In Posix-compliant systems (basically Unix system calls) a file exists independent of file names, and there can be multiple names for a file. If a program has a file open, that file can be deleted but it will still exist until the program closes (or the program exits). In the snapinstaller cycle,

Question regarding snapinstaller

2009-11-02 Thread Prasanna Ranganathan
It looks like the snapinstaller script does an atomic remove and replace of the entire solr_home/data_dir/index folder with the contents of the new snapshot before issuing a commit command. I am trying to understand the implication of the same. What happens to queries that come during the time