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These indices are built initially when Fedora is started for the first time on a non-empty OCFL. As content is added, updated and deleted, the indices are updated accordingly. You may at some point wish to rebuild these indices from scratch for a variety of reasons. For For example, it is likely that a future change (in subsequent releases) to the index structures could require a rebuild. In that case you can accomplish this task by simply restarting Fedora with the following flag:
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NOTE: Depending on the size of your repository, the type of database, and/or the capacity of your database server, the rebuild can take anywhere from a few seconds to several hours (i.e if you have many millions of objects).
Additional Configuration
To help with long rebuilds, optional properties can be passed in
| Property | Default Value | Note |
|---|---|---|
| -Dfcrepo.rebuild.validation | true | Enables validation of the ocfl repository before running reindexing. Set to false to skip this step. |
| -Dfcrepo.rebuild.validation.fixity | false | Sets a flag in the ocfl validation to run fixity checks on bitstreams during validation. Set to true to enable fixity checks. Note: -Dfcrepo.rebuild.validation must also be enabled for fixity checking |
| -Dfcrepo.ocfl.verify.inventory | true | Tells the ocfl repository that the inventory for an ocfl object should be validating during read and write operations. Set to false to disable checking of the inventory. |