You can't really use this if you have an optimized index, right? -----Original Message----- From: Koji Sekiguchi [mailto:k...@r.email.ne.jp] Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:57 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Index Splitter
Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade wrote: > Hi, > I've heard about a tool that can be used to split Lucene indexes, for cases > where you want to break up a large index into shards. Do you know where I can > find it? Any observations/recommendations about its use? > > This seems promising but I'm not sure if there is anything more mature out > there: > http://blog.foofactory.fi/2008/01/regenerating-equally-sized-shards-from.html > > Thanks, > Gio. > > There are IndexSplitter and MultiPassIndexSplitter tools in 3.0. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1959 I'd written an article about them before: http://lucene.jugem.jp/?eid=344 It is Japanese but I think you can read out how to use them from command lines... Koji -- http://www.rondhuit.com/en/