Github user uschindler commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/lucenenet/pull/70#issuecomment-72623626
@rcmuir 's patches for Java 7 changed that, as far as I remember. I will
ask him. In fact if a directory does not exist FSDirectory in Lucene 5.0 will
create it in its constructor. It calls Files.createDirectories(Path), which is
"mkdir -p":
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html#createDirectories(java.nio.file.Path,%20java.nio.file.attribute.FileAttribute...)
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