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On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Li Bing <lbl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > To improve the performance of retrieval, it is a good solution to > distribute Lucene indexes. However, since Lucene indexes are a black > box to me, each time I have to transmit the entire indexes. I think it > is far from perfect. Maybe I partition Lucene indexes, transmit them > piece by piece and merge them at the destination? Moreover, later when > the source indexes are updated, I just need to transmit the additional > pieces instead of the entire ones. Does Lucene supports such > functions? > > Best, > LB >