[Xapian-discuss] DatabaseCorruptError

[Andrew Betts]

> Is this database ever being moved or replaced?  The most likely reason
> I can think of for this pattern of errors is that you're updating the
> database by building a new copy, and then swapping it into place.  If
> such a swap happened during a search, you could get an error like
> this.
>
> If you're only doing the updates by indexing directly to the database,
> this can't be the problem.  If that's the situation, pehaps your
> remote filesystem is reordering writes to the different files in the
> database such that an inconsistent view is being presented to the
> searchers.

We aren't moving the file, but Gluster (the shared storage platform 
we're using) might be I suppose.  If that would produce this pattern, 
then that gives me a starting point.  Thanks!