Hmm, never mind my question about replicating using symlinks. Given that replication on a single machine improves throughput, I should be able to get a similar improvement by simply sharding on a single machine. As also observed at http://carsabi.com/car-news/2012/03/23/optimizing-solr-7x-your-search-speed/
I am now benchmarking my workload to compare replication vs. sharding performance on a single machine. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/SolrCloud-replication-question-tp3993761p3994017.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.