I should add that the records.cfg is the only current way to load a cfg file with a different name. The runroot and the env vars only allow us to point to a different directory with the predefined names.
still +1 for this, however, there might be a functional break for some people because of this as they depend on file names vs directory locations Jason On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 3:33 PM Randall Meyer <randallme...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > +1 > On Friday, November 1, 2019, 06:52:45 AM PDT, Leif Hedstrom < > zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’d like to remove all (most?) of the settings that lets you override > configuration file names via records.config. We have other means to > accomplish this (environment variables / runroot), and, many times, this > “feature” has caused problems during upgrades. In addition, debug / warning > / error messages often hardocdes these file names, making it even more > confusing when debugging issues. > > I’ve put up a first cut at this, which eliminates the configuration option > for storage.config. The rest would follow a similar pattern. Let me know if > you have any concerns about this (but no bike shedding, the color is blue, > I repeat, the color is blue!). I want this in for v9.0.0. > > Cheers, > > — Leif > > https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/6106
