Yes, they could all point to an index that lives on a NAS or SAN, for example. You'd still have to make sure only one server is writing to the index at a time. Zookeeper can help with coordination of that.
Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mark Diggory <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 7, 2009 8:16:46 PM > Subject: Can multiple Solr webapps access the same lucene index files? > > Hello, > > I have a question I can't find an answer to in the list. Can mutliple solr > webapps (for instance in separate cluster nodes) share the same lucene index > files stored within a shared filesystem? We do this with a custom Lucene > search application right now, I'm trying to switch to using solr and am > curious if we can use the same deployment strategy. > > Mark
