Mark , I have opened an issue SOLR-1216 let us make the necessary changes right away
thanks, On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Mark Miller<[email protected]> wrote: > +1 Noble. I think we should be careful about using the word snap or > snapshot. > > The reason I say its confusing is that: at the top of the wiki, it said "no > snapshots" - but indeed there were snapshots, just not in the same sense as > before. Shalin also mentioned that > this new replication method doesnt need to take a snapshot to replicate, but > in my mind, the commit point is a snapshot of the index (terminology thats > been used in the Lucene world). The only difference from the old scripts > replication snapshot is that you dont copy it out to a different folder with > this new method - to me, its a snapshot maintained in the same folder. > > So in my mind, snapshot is just so overloaded, and almost more confusing > than helpful. > > Its also not very clear that you don't need to call snappull unless you want > backups. Its also not clear where those backups will go (to someone reading > the wiki), or how they are managed, or rather you can replicate from a > backup > rather than the live index, etc. Its also not very clear how > "enable/disable" replicate relate to "enable/disable" polling. I know > because I saw the email about it, but a user reading the wiki would have > trouble. Its also not clear that replication defaults to on as well as > polling (I think?). > > It might also talk about what happens if you shutdown during replication. > Will Solr wait for the replication to finish? Will it be cut off? If its cut > off, are the temp files cleaned up later? > > Not to be over critical, or come down all at once, I was just going over the > page with someone trying to learn it recently and these are the type of > issues that came up. Just some suggestions of what we could address, > but I'm not nearly as familiar with it as you guys are. > > - Mark > > Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् wrote: >> >> how about renaming the 'snappull' command to 'synchronize' or 'sync' >> >> this is the only place where it uses the term 'snap' >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Mark Miller<[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Shalin Shekhar Mangar wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> 2009/6/10 Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> <str name="snapshot">startup</str> >>>>> <str name="snapshot">commit</str> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Please note that snapshots are needed only if you want backups. >>>> Replication >>>> does not need to create snapshots. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> The wiki is quite confusing on this. >>> >>> Doesnt it talk about the slave pulling a snapshot (or snap pull)? What >>> does >>> it pull if you don't create a snapshot? >>> >>> I think the terminology around snapshot needs to be cleaned up. >>> >>> -- >>> - Mark >>> >>> http://www.lucidimagination.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > - Mark > > http://www.lucidimagination.com > > > > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Principal Engineer| AOL | http://aol.com
