pike wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm new to nutch.
> Can anyone point me to some documentation about
> the directory structure Nutch creates and maintains
> when crawling, indexing etc ? We're doing "whole-web"
> crawls step by step. Since I have no reference, it's
> hard to see wether crawling, merging, indexing, etc
> went ok.
>
>
> thanks!
> *-pike
>
Well, unfortunately there is not much document out there. But you should 
start by reading the articles at the nutch wiki first. For the index 
structure you should seek help in the lucene wiki, since nutch uses 
lucene as an inverted index. To look at the generated indexes you can 
use luke or lucli(command line) tools. lucli can be found in the contrib 
directory of lucene.

Nutch stores the crawl state of the urls in the crawldb. The crawldb is 
an instance of Hadoop's MapFile, which is a sequence of <key,value> 
pairs. The keys in crawldb are urls and values are CrawlDatum objects. 
MapFile uses two SequenceFile s, one for storing the data, the other for 
indexing the data. You should check the javadocs of these classes for 
further info.

Linkdb is also stored as map files, from urls to Inlink objects.
For further info, you should really browse the javadocs, and skim 
through the code to get a deeper understanding of the system.

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