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<DIV><SPAN class=772322301-06032009><FONT face=Verdana size=2>We keep Lucene
search indexes on a GFS storage volume, mounted cluster-wide. This way
each cluster node can perform a search, or append the search index with new
content. Works great.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=772322301-06032009><FONT face=Verdana size=2>Funny thing is,
when I list the directory containing the search index, I sometimes see output
like the following:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=772322301-06032009><FONT face=Verdana size=2>$ ls -l<BR>total
600<BR>?--------- ? ?
?
? ?
_2931.f3<BR>?--------- ? ?
?
? ?
_2931.f4<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1260 Mar 5 20:21
_2931.f5<BR>?--------- ? ?
?
? ?
_2931.f6<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f1<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f2<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f3<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f4<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f5<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1261 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.f6<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 226300 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.fdt<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 10088 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.fdx<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 51 Mar 5
20:21 _2933.fnm<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 60778 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.frq<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 43035 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.prx<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 1571 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.tii<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 118784 Mar 5 20:21
_2933.tis<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 0
Mar 5 20:21 commit.lock<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox
toybox 0 Mar 5 20:21 deletable<BR>-rw-r--r--
1 toybox toybox 18 Mar 5 20:21
segments<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 toybox toybox 0 Mar
5 20:21 write.lock<BR></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=772322301-06032009><FONT face=Verdana size=2>I would have
expected to see something in each of the fields. Is this a clue that
stat() is failing? If so, why? I've never seen anything like it on a
non-GFS volume.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2><SPAN
class=772322301-06032009>-Jeff</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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