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Andi Vajda commented on LUCENE-4190: ------------------------------------ I think that the way to "bound" the namespace of files is to put everything in a subdirectory of the index directory chosen by the user and control the name of that subdirectory, making it clear that this is semi-private to Lucene and that all files in that subdirectory are fair game. > IndexWriter deletes non-Lucene files > ------------------------------------ > > Key: LUCENE-4190 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-4190 > Project: Lucene - Java > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Michael McCandless > Assignee: Robert Muir > Fix For: 4.0 > > Attachments: LUCENE-4190.patch > > > Carl Austin raised a good issue in a comment on my Lucene 4.0.0 alpha blog > post: > http://blog.mikemccandless.com/2012/07/lucene-400-alpha-at-long-last.html > IndexWriter will now (as of 4.0) delete all foreign files from the index > directory. We made this change because Codecs are free to write to any files > now, so the space of filenames is hard to "bound". > But if the user accidentally uses the wrong directory (eg c:/) then we will > in fact delete important stuff. > I think we can at least use some simple criteria (must start with _, maybe > must fit certain pattern eg _<base36>(_X).Y), so we are much less likely to > delete a non-Lucene file.... -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org