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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-5588: --------------------------------------- In fact. it also does not work on Linux, see http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/6952 You have to open the file for read and then call fsync. I will think about a patch. > We should also fsync the directory when committing > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-5588 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5588 > Project: Lucene - Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core/store > Reporter: Uwe Schindler > Fix For: 4.8, 5.0 > > > Since we are on Java 7 now and we already fixed FSDir.sync to use FileChannel > (LUCENE-5570), we can also fsync the directory (at least try to do it). > Unlike RandomAccessFile, which must be a regular file, FileChannel.open() can > also open a directory: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7694307/using-filechannel-to-fsync-a-directory-with-nio-2 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org