Markus,

>> The problem is not that Matterhorn clears the directory, it is that the
>> underlying OS clears it.  This is the same problem we had way back when
>> the project first started where people did not realize that all of their
>> data lived in RAM.  At least until they rebooted.
>> 
>> It's easy for a developer/adopter to clear the files manually if they
>> want to rather than trust in the OS to clear things on reboot.  We
>> should make it harder to lose all your data, not easier.
>> 
>> G
> I'm clear about that, was just a proposal to make live easier for developers, 
> propably not a good one.
> So to make it harder:
> 1. change storage.dir to a non temporal dir
> 2. remove all unnecessary mentions of java.io.tmpdir in codebase
> I think this should be enough to NOT loose any data. Why mess around with it 
> and maybe having some other problems.

You seem to have strong feelings about this. I've assigned the ticket to you, 
please make the changes that you proposed.

Tobias
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