Solr 4.2 does have field compression which makes smaller indexes. That will reduce the amount of network traffic. That probably does not help much, because I think the latency of NFS is what causes problems.
wunder On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Ali, Saqib wrote: > Hello Walter, > > Thanks for the response. That has been my experience in the past as well. > But I was wondering if there new are things in Solr 4 and NFS 4.1 that make > the storing of indexes on a NFS mount feasible. > > Thanks, > Saqib > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Walter Underwood > <wun...@wunderwood.org>wrote: > >> On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Ali, Saqib wrote: >> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Are there any issues with storing Solr Indexes on a NFS share? Also any >>> recommendations for using NFS for Solr indexes? >> >> I recommend that you do not put Solr indexes on NFS. >> >> It can be very slow, I measured indexing as 100X slower on NFS a few years >> ago. >> >> It is not safe to share Solr index files between two Solr servers, so >> there is no benefit to NFS. >> >> wunder >> -- >> Walter Underwood >> wun...@wunderwood.org >> >> >> >> -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org
