That's not a Lucene problem, it sounds like you have delayed write set on the disks which effectively means that I/O is async. If you switch that off on those disks then you shouldn't encounter that issue.
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci1041334,00.htmlexplains more. Ciaran On 30/10/2007, Charles Wan-Calo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, All, > > I am working on a project using Lucene 2.0. We've been testing our > application on a number of Windows machines with .NET 2.0. On some (but > not > all) machines) we got "delayed write failure" errors from Windows. > Sometimes, Windows rebooted by itself and got into check disk utility > after > reboot. Check disk utility reported that disk sectors were recovered. > Other times, we got the Windows error dialog box. After clicking away the > dialog box, the Lucene index files were messed up. We couldn't delete > them. We had to run Windows check disk utility to repair the sectors. > > Does anyone have the same experience? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > Charles >