[KinoSearch] Search in a clustered environment

[Miles Crawford]

I notice that your workaround as described in

http://www.rectangular.com/kinosearch/docs/devel/KinoSearch/Docs/NFS.html

does not help when multiple process may be updating an index.  Still, using 
this strategy I could perhaps have a process that runs once a minute and 
indexes everything created across all cluster-members since the last run. 
Clumsy, and it would be much better from a usability perspective to block 
until the index is updated in my case.


> SearchServer and SearchClient were designed to support distributed search. 
> However, I doubt you'll need them for 2,000 searches.  Are you anticipating 
> an increase in volume, or are you concerned primarily about multi-machine 
> interop?

It's not 2,000 searches, it's 2,000 new items added to the index per day. 
There is no search functionality yet, so god only knows how many searches per 
day will be run.

I'm really only interested in multi-machine interoperability at this point. 
I'd love to extend the search feature to other tools we run at some point, but 
they'd probably be using their own separate indexes.  That said, is there 
anything I should know about using SearchServer/Client to achieve this?

-Miles