Juggling disk volumes does not sound like a logical responsibility for Solr to me. Solr/Lucene expects to have enough room to live in. Better to push this down to the OS level. There are all kinds of logical volume managers around which lets you add new disks to the same logical volume, achieving what you want. Or if you run on a cloud architecture, you may increase disk with a couple of API calls triggered by monitoring...
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com On 17. okt. 2010, at 12.38, Peter Sturge wrote: > Is it possible to get an index to span multiple disk volumes - i.e. > when its 'primary' volume fills up (or optimize needs more room), tell > Solr/Lucene to use a secondary/tertiary/quaternary et al volume? > > I've not seen any configuration that would allow this, but maybe > others have a use case for such functionality? > > Thanks, > Peter
