bq: Which means the docs have a problem, since they are recommending something that should not be recommended
Absolutely, just changed: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/DataDir+and+DirectoryFactory+in+SolrConfig. Was that the one that mislead you? Erick On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: > Running with this, which works they way we want. > > <dataDir>/solr/data/${solr.core.name}</dataDir> > > wunder > Walter Underwood > wun...@wunderwood.org > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > >> On Feb 24, 2017, at 10:08 AM, Walter Underwood <wun...@wunderwood.org> wrote: >> >> Dang it. I know better than that, but I was blindly following the docs. >> Which means the docs have a problem, since they are recommending something >> that should not be recommended. >> >> Putting variable data on a different volume is very common. Official support >> for that goes at least as far back as Unix V7 (1979), with /var. It should >> be easy to do in Solr. >> >> I expected to see the shard names as directories under /solr/data, but I now >> remember that I need to set that with a variable. >> >> Time to delete everything and rebuild everything again. >> >> wunder >> Walter Underwood >> wun...@wunderwood.org >> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) >> >> >>> On Feb 24, 2017, at 8:30 AM, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: >>> >>> On 2/23/2017 6:41 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: >>>> I did this in the solrconfig.xml for both collections (tutors and >>>> questions). >>>> >>>> <dataDir>/solr/data</dataDir> >>>> >>>> I deleted the old collection indexes, reloaded, restarted, and created a >>>> new collection for “tutors". And I see this on the disk. >>> >>> Setting dataDir in solrconfig.xml, especially to an absolute path like >>> that, is generally not a good idea. It's VERY bad if that config will >>> be used by multiple cores. The best place to do it is in >>> core.properties, so it's part of the core definition and independent of >>> config/schema. IMHO it's best to make it a relative path. Below is a >>> core.properties file from my dev system running 6.3.0, in a >>> "cores/sparkinc_0" directory under the solr home. >>> >>> I do not see anything broken in the directory listings you provided. >>> What do you see that is misplaced? >>> >>> With SolrCloud, I wouldn't be setting dataDir *at all* -- I would let >>> Solr handle that, mostly because the config for SolrCloud is not on the >>> disk and therefore dataDir doesn't need to be separated from instanceDir. >>> >>> #Written by CorePropertiesLocator >>> #Mon Feb 06 19:24:18 UTC 2017 >>> name=sparkinclive >>> loadonStartup=false >>> dataDir=../../data/sparkinc_0 >>> transient=false >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Shawn >>> >> >
