[LUCENE-5678] Investigate to use FileoutputStream instead of RandomAccessFile in FSIndexOutput

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.9, 6.0
• Component/s: core/store
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Uwe Schindler
• Created: 17/May/14 14:55
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:07
• Resolved: 03/Jun/14 14:26

Description

We no longer allow seeking in IndexOutput, so there is no need to use RandomAccessFile. We can change this with a < 1 KiB patch.

Further improvements would be to merge this with OutputStreamIndexOutput, so we get many simplifications.

There is also no reason anymore to separate DataOutput from IndexOutput. The only additional thing is IndexOutput#getFilePointer(), which is handled by an internal counter (does not use getFilePointer of the underlying RAF) and checksums.

Issue Links

• contains: LUCENE-5582 Remove IndexOutput.length and .setLength
• depends upon: LUCENE-5727 Remove IndexOutput.seek
• relates to: LUCENE-5164 Remove the OOM catching in SimpleFSDirectory and NIOFSDirectory