The main drawback is about 10% performance hit (independent of how many webapps you have running in a servlet container)
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: revas <revas...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:58:33 AM > Subject: Compund file format > > What is the draw back in using compunf file format for indexing when we have > several webapps in a sinle container > > Regards > Sujatha