It pretty much can. Generally, those operations happen on a copy of the index and hence are pretty much atomic. That is the reason why 2X the size of the index is required only for the optimize operation. You should get (buy) a copy of lucene in action 2nd ed from manning for a lot of such info.
-- Anshum Gupta http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jiang mingyuan < mailtojiangmingy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can lucene index survives a machine crash during the merge or optimize > operation？ > > or can I stop the running index program during the merge or optimize > period? > > I have saw some of introduction about this few month ago,but when I need > it, > I can't remember where it is. > > Can you help me? > > Thanks very much > > -------------------------------------- > mingyuan >
