On Dec 14, 2007 7:36 PM, Tracy Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) The existing index(es) being used by the Solr slave instance are > physically deleted > 2) The new index snapshots are renamed/moved from their temporary > installation location to the default index location > 3) The slave is sent a 'commit' to force a new IndexReader to start to > read the new index. > > What happens to search requests against the existing/old index during > step 1) and between steps 1 and 2?
Search requests will still work on the old searcher/index. > Where do they get information if > they need to go to disk for results that are not cached? Do they a) > hang b) produce no results c) error in some other way? A lucene IndexReader keeps all the files open that aren't loaded into memory... and external deletion has no effect on the ability to keep reading these open files (they aren't really deleted yet). -Yonik
