[LUCENE-4593] clean up FST storage abstractions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 06/Dec/12 15:42
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:33

Description

I was looking at James patch for LUCENE-3298, and I thought that you know, FST almost abstracts its underlying "i/o" (storage) via reader/writer abstractions.

It would be good to try to work on this more, e.g. we can imagine a little abstraction like lucene has a Store (Directory).

This way maybe we could cleanup the packed vs non-packed, allow for > 2GB fsts without slowing down small ones, and so on.

I have a patch that is like an amoeba-step towards this

Sub-Tasks

• remove FST.pack() method: Closed