From f19a63217d6f0cac34c62f71509aa0955224f409 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug Cutting <cutting@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:10:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Changed the default index format to be compound.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/java/trunk@150245 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
CHANGES.txt | 4 ++++
src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 562d8b29309..73ae58a27f6 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@ $Id$
http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27491
(Morus Walter via Otis)
+14. Changed so that the compound index format is used by default.
+ This makes indexing a bit slower, but vastly reduces the chances
+ of file handle problems. (Cutting)
+
1.3 final
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
index de7c08ca15c..b77a05e87ce 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/IndexWriter.java
@@ -112,10 +112,11 @@ public class IndexWriter {
private Lock writeLock;
- /** Use compound file setting. Defaults to false to maintain multiple files
- * per segment behavior.
+ /** Use compound file setting. Defaults to true, minimizing the number of
+ * files used. Setting this to false may improve indexing performance, but
+ * may also cause file handle problems.
*/
- private boolean useCompoundFile = false;
+ private boolean useCompoundFile = true;
/** Setting to turn on usage of a compound file. When on, multiple files