[pylucene-dev] Robustness when indexing is interrupted?

[Andi Vajda]

I assume you're talking about an index back by an FSDirectory. If so, well 
yes, if you open files, write into them, don't flush nor close buffers, things 
might be a little unfinished later.

Andi..

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Nick Arnett wrote:

> I just noticed that if I create an index, don't add any documents, and fail 
> to do IndexWriter.close(), the index seems to be unusable.
>
> Is this generally true?  Are indexes fairly sure to be corrupt if the process 
> is interrupted or otherwise ended in some unclean way?
>
> Nick
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