On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Michael McCandless <
luc...@mikemccandless.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Peter Keegan <peterlkee...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Even running in console mode, the exception is difficult to interpret.
> > Here's an exception that I think occurred during an add document, commit
> or
> > close:
> > doc counts differ for segment _g: field Reader shows 137 but segmentInfo
> > shows 5777
>
> That's spooky.  Do you have the full exception for this one?  What IO
> system are you running on?  (Is it just a local drive on your windows
> computer?) It's almost as if the IO system is not generating an
> IOException to Java when disk fills up.
>

Index and code are all on a local drive. There is no other exception coming
back - just what I reported.

>
> > I ensured that the disk space was low before updating the index.
>
> You mean, to intentionally test the disk-full case?
>

Yes, that's right.


>
> > On another occasion, the exception was:
> > background merge hit exception: _0:C1080260 _1:C139 _2:C123 _3:C107
> _4:C126
> > _5:C121 _6:C126 _7:C711 _8:C116 into _9 [optimize] [mergeDocStores]
>
> In this case, the SegmentMerger was trying to open this segment, but
> on attempting to read the first int from the fdx (fields index) file
> for one of the segments, it hit EOF.
>
> This is also spooky -- this looks like index corruption, which should
> never happen on hitting disk full.
>

That's what I thought, too. Could Lucene be catching the IOException and
turning it into a different exception?


>
> Mike
>
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