Wow, that's a lot to learn. At some point, I need to really dig in, or find some pretty pictures, graphical aids.
Dennis Gearon Signature Warning ---------------- EARTH has a Right To Life, otherwise we all die. Read 'Hot, Flat, and Crowded' Laugh at http://www.yert.com/film.php --- On Fri, 9/17/10, Shawn Heisey <elyog...@elyograg.org> wrote: > From: Shawn Heisey <elyog...@elyograg.org> > Subject: Re: Simple Filter Query (fq) Use Case Question > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Friday, September 17, 2010, 11:36 AM > On 9/16/2010 12:27 PM, Dennis Gearon > wrote: > > Is a core a running piece of software, or just an > index/config pairing? > > Dennis Gearon > > > A core is one complete index within a Solr instance. > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/CoreAdmin > > My master index servers have five cores - ncmain, ncrss, > live, build, and test. The slave servers are missing > the build and test cores. I have the same schema.xml > and data-config.xml on all of them, but solrconfig.xml is > slightly different between them. > > The ncmain and ncrss cores do not have indexes, they are > used as brokers and have shards configured in their request > handlers. > > The live, build, and test cores use directories named > core0, core1, and core2, because they are intended to be > swapped as required. > >