[LUCENE-780] Generalize directory copy operation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.1
• Component/s: core/store
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jiri Kuhn
• Created: 22/Jan/07 14:28
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:34
• Resolved: 22/Jan/07 19:23

Description

The copy operation in RAMDirectory(Directory) constructor can be used more generally to copy one directory to another. Why bound it only to RAMDirectory?. For example, I build index in RAMDirectory but I need it to persist in FSDirectory. I created a patch to solve it.