Index compression

[Paul Liddelow <pa...@gmail.com>]

Hi
I'm just wondering about the index that Nutch creates and whether it
is compressed in any way. I have checked through all the mailing list
entries and can't find anything about compression. I found something
on Sami Siren's blog that mentioned it but it didn't really answer my
question.

My question is: does Nutch compress the index after the crawl? Or is
this something Lucene does? Or do you need to call a compression
plugin (if one exists) to nutch-site.xml? Or are the segments
compressed?

If anybody can shed some light on this matter that would be great.
Thanks
Paul