Thanks! Now I need to write up the mistakes I made trying to use the solr command.
wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Feb 24, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >>>> >>> >>
