there are some strange problems with FSDirectory, i have found that building chuncks in a RAMDirectory and then merge these into a FSDirectory is more stable than indexing directly into the FSDirectory, i ran into your problem and the dreaded "too many open files" problems when indexing large documents with many fields....
using a RAMDir as a middle man solved my problems... mvh karl řie On Friday 26 April 2002 13:54, petite_abeille wrote: > Hello, > > I'm starting to wander how "bullet proof" are Lucene indexes? Do they > get corrupted easely? If so is there a way to rebuild them? > > I'm started to get the following exception left and right... > > "04/25 18:34:39 (Warning) Indexer.indexObjectWithValues: > java.io.IOException: _91.fnm already exists" > > I build a little app (http://homepage.mac.com/zoe_info/) that uses > Lucene quiet extensively, and I would like to keep it that way. However, > I'm starting to have second thought about Lucene's reliability... :-( > > I'm sure I'm doing something wrong somewhere, but I really cannot see > what... > > Any help or insight greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > PA. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>