: 1. Using the compound file format drops the number of file descriptors : needed. Any other benefits?
not that i know of. : 2. Indexing may be slower. What about query performance? If i remember correctly it's a little slower, but "a little" may be inconsequential. : 3. Since Lucene 1.4, the compound file format became the default, however : Solr default is not to use compound file format. Why this inconsistency? SolrIndexConfig.java shows "useCompoundFile = true" as the defualt ... are you seeing something different getting used as the default somewhere? -Hoss
