For some reason this got swallowed.  Thanks for resending, Emmanuel.

My comments inline.

On 6 Aug 2009, at 15:19, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:



Begin forwarded message:

From: Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel@hibernate.org>
Date:  August 4, 2009 08:53:07  EDT
To: Manik Surtani <manik@jboss.org>
Subject: Re: [infinispan-dev] [hibernate-dev] Spliting Lucene segments in Infinispan Directory

Manik,
do you have some insight? We can't really understand why this is split.

Emmanuel

On  Jul 30, 2009, at 19:51, Łukasz Moreń wrote:

Hi,

The JBoss Cache directory for Lucene splits each Lucene segment into  
pieces - chunks. Similar solutions exists in Lucene RamDirectory  
implementation.

Smaller chunks mean smaller replication units, and finer grained locking (although the latter may not really be useful since you want to lock the entire 'file' each time).

Are there some pros to use such splitting approach in Infinispan  
directory case? Some buffer size is recommended?

For Infinispan though, I suggest not really bothering with this, unless you feel that individual files would really be very large and possibly too large to fit in memory - in which case chunking would make sense again.

Cheers
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Manik Surtani
Lead, Infinispan
Lead, JBoss Cache