Re: A corrupt index

Adam Sjøgren <[email protected]> Fri, 03 Dec 2021 08:14:00 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.search.xapian.general
Organization	koldfront - analysis & revolution, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Olly writes:

> Compaction just copies a lot of the table entries as-is - it doesn't
> need to unpack and repack every entry to work, and it's much faster
> to just copy them.

Ah, ok, makes sense!

>> So rather than wasting more of your time trying to decorrupt-at-a-
>> distance, I will switch over to a new, freshly created glass index,
>> hopefully later this week.
>
> Sounds like a good plan.  It should be significantly smaller and faster
> rebuilt for glass too.

It took a little longer than I predicted, but I've got the index rebuilt
from scratch now.

The new (glass) index is 1.2 TB on disk, while the old (chert) is 1.1 TB.


  Best regards,

    Adam

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