Cloning shards => cloning collections

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

In http://search-lucene.com/m/O1O2r14sU811 Shalin wrote:

"The splitting process is nothing but the creation of a bitset with
which a LiveDocsReader is created. These readers are then added to the
a new index via IW.addIndexes(IndexReader[] readers) method."

... which makes me wonder.... couldn't the same mechanism be used to clone
shards and thus allow us to clone/duplicate a whole collection?  A handy
feature, IMHO.

Thanks,
Otis
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Re: Cloning shards => cloning collections

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

As a matter of fact, what about exposing a new Collection API CLONE command
and having Solr simply copy all the needed shards and replicas at the FS
level, would that work (or not because of different Directory
implementations that may not all lend themselves to being simply copied)?

Thanks,
Otis
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Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Otis Gospodnetic <
otis.gospodnetic@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In http://search-lucene.com/m/O1O2r14sU811 Shalin wrote:
>
> "The splitting process is nothing but the creation of a bitset with
> which a LiveDocsReader is created. These readers are then added to the
> a new index via IW.addIndexes(IndexReader[] readers) method."
>
> ... which makes me wonder.... couldn't the same mechanism be used to clone
> shards and thus allow us to clone/duplicate a whole collection?  A handy
> feature, IMHO.
>
> Thanks,
> Otis
> --
> Performance Monitoring * Log Analytics * Search Analytics
> Solr & Elasticsearch Support * http://sematext.com/
>
>
>