Noble Paul നോബിള് नोब्ळ् wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Michael McCandless
> <lucene@mikemccandless.com> wrote:
>>
>> Are you thinking this would just fallback to Directory.fileModified
>> on the
>> segments_N file for that commit?
>>
>> You could actually do that without any API change, because
>> IndexCommit
>> exposes a getSegmentsFileName().
> If it is a RAMDirectory how can we get the lastmodified?
RAMDirectory will report the System.currentTimeMillis() when the file
was last changed. Is that not sufficient?
> Isn't it a lot of overhead to read the file modified time everytime
> the timestamp is tobe obtained?
I would think this method does not need to be super fast -- how
frequently are you planning to call it?
Note that the segments_N file has no other means of extracting a
timestamp for itself; it does not store a timestamp internally or
anything.
Mike
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