thanks shawn, i'll give it a try.
msj On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 11/8/2013 7:39 PM, mike st. john wrote: > >> Is there any way to create collections dynamically. >> >> >> Having some issues using collections api, need to pass dataDir etc to the >> cores doesn't seem to >> work correctly? >> > > You can't pass dataDir with the collections API. It is concerned with the > entire collection, not individual cores. With SolrCloud, you really > shouldn't be trying to override those things. One reason you might want to > do this is that you want to share one instanceDir with all your cores. > This is basically unsupported with SolrCloud, because the config is in > zookeeper, not on the disk. The dataDir defaults to $instanceDir/data. > > If you *really* want to go against recommendations and control all the > directories yourself, you can build the cores using the CoreAdmin API > instead of the Collections API. The wiki page on SolrCloud has some > details on how to do this. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
