[LUCENE-5727] Remove IndexOutput.seek

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.9, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 02/Jun/14 18:27
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:09
• Resolved: 03/Jun/14 11:22

Description

This has been deprecated / unused for a few years, and several things assume append-only functionality: checksumming in the index format, HDFS integration in solr, etc.

I think its time to remove it. We can continue to test 3.x codec with a simple hack in PreFlexRW.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: LUCENE-5678 Investigate to use FileoutputStream instead of RandomAccessFile in FSIndexOutput