I think I meant: this writeup implies to me that two cores could share the same "default" index. I don't see how this would work, or be useful.
Thanks, Lance Norskog -----Original Message----- From: Ryan McKinley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:30 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: MultiCore on Wiki On Apr 30, 2008, at 11:52 PM, Lance Norskog wrote: > The MultiCore writeup on the Wiki > (http://wiki.apache.org/solr/MultiCore > ) > says: > > ... > Configuration->core->dataDir > The data directory for a given core. (optional) > > How can a core not have its own dataDir? What happens if this is not > set? > It defaults to the "normal" location, that is whatever is specified in solrconfig.xml or "data" relative to the solr.home for that directory. (I'm not looking at the code now, so try it out and see...) ryan