Folks, In my understanding, you need the archives only for features such as PITR. Considering, that the PITR functionality is not provided in Ignite why do we have the archives enabled by default?
How about having this feature disabled by default to prevent the following issues experienced by our users: http://apache-ignite-users.70518.x6.nabble.com/WAL-and-WAL-Archive-volume-size-recommendation-td34458.html - Denis