snippets_file_prefix
snippets_file_prefix
A prefix to prepend to the local file names when generating snippets. Optional, default is empty. Introduced in version 2.1.1-beta.
This prefix can be used in distributed snippets generation along with
load_files or load_files_scattered options.
Note how this is a prefix, and not a path! Meaning that if a prefix
is set to “server1” and the request refers to “file23”, searchd
will attempt to open “server1file23” (all of that without quotes). So if you
need it to be a path, you have to mention the trailing slash.
Note also that this is a local option, it does not affect the agents anyhow. So you can safely set a prefix on a master server. The requests routed to the agents will not be affected by the master's setting. They will however be affected by the agent's own settings.
This might be useful, for instance, when the document storage locations (be those local storage or NAS mountpoints) are inconsistent across the servers.
Example:
snippets_file_prefix = /mnt/common/server1/
