title: opening lucene index stored in hdfs
body: <p>How to read a lucene index directory stored over HDFS i.e. How to get IndexReader for the index stored over HDFS. The IndexReader is to opened in a map task.</p>
  
  <p>Something like: IndexReader reader = IndexReader.open("hdfs/path/to/index/directory");</p>
  
  <p>Thanks,
  Akhil</p>