On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Michael McCandless < luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
> Actually, segments.gen is created by current Lucene versions. It > records the current generation (the _N in segments_N) in the index, as > a fallback in case directory listing of the files fails to locate the > segments_N file (eg on filesystems, like NFS, where the directory > listing may come from a stale cache). > > Older Lucene versions (before 2.1) created only the file "segments". > Thanks for clarifying that Mike! -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
