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Andrzej Bialecki commented on LUCENE-2373:
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Good point, Lance - though for larger indexes the number of blocks (hence the
number of sub-readers in your scenario) would be substantial, maybe too high.
Hadoop doesn't do much of local caching of remote blocks, but I implemented a
HDFS Directory in Luke that uses ehcache, and it works quite well.
> Change StandardTermsDictWriter to work with streaming and append-only
> filesystems
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>
> Key: LUCENE-2373
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-2373
> Project: Lucene - Java
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Index
> Reporter: Andrzej Bialecki
> Fix For: 4.0
>
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> Since early 2.x times Lucene used a skip/seek/write trick to patch the length
> of the terms dict into a place near the start of the output data file. This
> however made it impossible to use Lucene with append-only filesystems such as
> HDFS.
> In the post-flex trunk the following code in StandardTermsDictWriter
> initiates this:
> {code}
> // Count indexed fields up front
> CodecUtil.writeHeader(out, CODEC_NAME, VERSION_CURRENT);
> out.writeLong(0); // leave space for end
> index pointer
> {code}
> and completes this in close():
> {code}
> out.seek(CodecUtil.headerLength(CODEC_NAME));
> out.writeLong(dirStart);
> {code}
> I propose to change this layout so that this pointer is stored simply at the
> end of the file. It's always 8 bytes long, and we known the final length of
> the file from Directory, so it's a single additional seek(length - 8) to read
> it, which is not much considering the benefits.
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