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Uwe Schindler commented on LUCENE-8982:
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bq. gradle will pick up the toolchain suitable for the platform if it finds any 
- the CI just doesn't have it.

That's fine. My idea was: Can't we build the native dependencies, if the 
toolchain is there, but don't fail if not an just print a warning?

> Make NativeUnixDirectory pure java now that direct IO is possible
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-8982
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-8982
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: modules/misc
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Dawid Weiss
>            Priority: Major
>          Time Spent: 9h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> {{NativeUnixDirectory}} is a {{Directory}} implementation that uses direct IO 
> to write newly merged segments.  Direct IO bypasses the kernel's buffer cache 
> and write cache, making merge writes "invisible" to the kernel, though the 
> reads for merging the N segments are still going through the kernel.
> But today, {{NativeUnixDirectory}} uses a small JNI wrapper to access the 
> {{O_DIRECT}} flag to {{open}} ... since JDK9 we can now pass that flag in 
> pure java code, so we should now fix {{NativeUnixDirectory}} to not use JNI 
> anymore.
> We should also run some more realistic benchmarks seeing if this option 
> really helps nodes that are doing concurrent indexing (merging) and searching.



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