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Eric Evans commented on CASSANDRA-3570:
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bq. As the only? committer not using a Unix-based primary workstation, I
suppose it falls to me to point out that /var/* is not a cross-platform
standard either.
Yeah, fair enough. Though if this is something that falls into the category of
cant-be-guessed-so-recommend, then an FHS-based recommendation is still the
clear choice. Maybe there should be some entries adjacent to these, commented
out, which include the corresponding recommended Windows paths.
Also, I just had one other thought. Paths in {{cassandra.yaml}} are all
expected to be absolute. The startup scripts are smart enough to work with
relative paths when called from elsewhere, but a relative path of db/ placed in
{{cassandra.yaml}} will fail unless $PWD at startup is the top-level directory.
I know this is meant to optimize for that case, but that's still kind of dodgy.
> barrier-of-entry: make ./bin/cassandra -f work out of the box by changing
> default cassandra.yaml
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> Key: CASSANDRA-3570
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3570
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Peter Schuller
> Assignee: Peter Schuller
> Priority: Trivial
> Attachments: CASSANDRA_3570-dbpath.txt
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>
> This is probably going to be controversial. But how about the attached simple
> patch to just have ./db exist, and then have Cassandra configured to use that
> by default? This makes it a lot easier for people to just run Cassandra out
> of the working copy, whether you are a developer or a user who wants to apply
> a patch when being assisted by a Cassandra developer.
> A real deployment with packaging should properly override these paths anyway,
> and the default /var/lib stuff is pretty useless. Even if you are root on the
> machine, who it is much cleaner to just run self-contained.
> Yes, I am aware that you can over-ride the configuration but honestly, that's
> just painful. Especially when switching between various versions of Cassandra.
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