Hello, Would it make sense and be possible to spread different index files over multiple disks (without resorting to putting an index on a RAID)? For example, what if the index files didn't live in a single index dir, but were organized by their type in a snallow dir tree, like this:
/path/to/index: tis/<tis files here> ftd/<fdt files here> prx/<prx files here> ... Then one could symlink these tis, fdt, prx, etc. dirs to locations that are really on different disks. Is this doable and would it help imrpve performance? I think it could improve segment merging, index optimization, and searches, because N disk heads would be able to do ~N times more work because of parallelization. But the idea seems to simple that it makes me think I'm missing something, otherwise it would have already been done. :) Otis -- Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
