On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:51 AM, Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade <gfernandez-kinc...@capitaliq.com> wrote: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrReplication > > I've been looking over this replication wiki and I'm still unclear on a two > points about Solr Replication: > > 1. If there have been small changes to the index on the master, does the > slave copy the entire contents of the index files that were affected?
only the delta is copied. > > a. Let's say I add one document to the master. Presumably that causes > changes to the position file, amidst a few others. Does the slave download > the entire position file? Or just the portion that was changed? > Lucene never modifies a file which was written by previous commits. So if you add a new document and commit , it is written to new files. Solr replication will only replicate those new files > 2. If you have a multi-core slave, is it possible to share one > configuration file (i.e. one instance directory) amidst the multiple cores, > and yet each core poll a different master? > > a. Can you set the masterUrl for each core separately in the server.xml? > > > Thanks for your help, > Gio. > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul | Systems Architect| AOL | http://aol.com
