Ah, thanks for tracking this down. It would have been scary to find out that Solr was automagically doing this.
Erick On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Mohit Jain <mo...@bloomreach.com> wrote: > Hi Erick, > > Thanks for the response. Even I was surprised to see that behavior. Anyways > I debugged it and found that Solr is not doing anything. > > The flow was > - Generate config locally using templates > - Sync configs to remote solr servers using "rsync" <------- > > I started digging deeper and went through the changes done during migration > from 3.x to 4.x. There was no big change except that instead of syncing > only modified files, rsync was running on all the configs including > tomcat's, > > ---localhost# rsync -v --omit-dir-times -ah --rsh .... blah blah blah ... > remotehost/..... > > Bingo !! Tomcat was the one which was keeping track of changes in his own > config/bin dirs. Once the timestamp of those dirs are changed it issued > reload on all wars, resulting reload of solr cores. > > By the way it will be good to have a similar configurable feature in Solr. > > Thanks > Mohit Jain > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Erick Erickson > <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I don't think this is the case at all, but of course I could have >> missed something. >> That is, if by "automatically reloaded" you mean they're picked up on >> server restart >> or explicit core reload (see the admin API). >> >> But just changing the files on disk doesn't cause Solr to load the >> changed configs. >> >> When a core reload _does_ occur, all of the relevant files are re-read. >> >> HTH, >> Erick >> >> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Mohit Jain <mo...@bloomreach.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > After upgrading Solr from 3.x to 4.x, I have observed that a solr core >> gets >> > automatically reloaded if a configuration file is changed. I would like >> to >> > know further about it >> > >> > - What is the flow of this feature ? >> > - Is there a way to configure the set of files, so that any changes to >> them >> > would result in reload ? >> > - Responsible classes/code ? >> > >> > Any pointers/help would be much appreciated. >> > >> > Thanks >> > Mohit Jain >>
