Are you suggesting a multi-core setup, where all the cores share the same
schema, and the cores lie on different disks?

Basically, I'd like to know if I can distribute shards/segments on a single
machine (with multiple disks) without the use of zookeeper.





-Deepak



On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Upayavira <u...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:

> I think you'll find it hard to distribute different segments between
> disks, as they are typically stored in the same directory.
>
> However, instantiating separate cores on different disks should be
> straight-forward enough, and would give you a performance benefit.
>
> I've certainly heard of that done at Amazon, with a separate EBS volume
> per core giving some performance improvement.
>
> Upayavira
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, at 07:35 PM, Deepak Konidena wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I know that SolrCloud allows you to have multiple shards on different
> > machines (or a single machine). But it requires a zookeeper installation
> > for doing things like leader election, leader availability, etc
> >
> > While SolrCloud may be the ideal solution for my usecase eventually, I'd
> > like to know if there's a way I can point my Solr instance to read lucene
> > segments distributed across different disks attached to the same machine.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Deepak
>

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