+1
> On Apr 12, 2016, at 5:58 PM, Greg Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey folks!
> A number of situations have arisen in which the default value of the Mesos
> agent `--work_dir` flag (/tmp/mesos) has caused problems on systems in which
> the automatic cleanup of '/tmp' deletes agent metadata. To resolve this, we
> would like to eliminate the default value of the agent `--work_dir` flag. You
> can find the relevant JIRA here
> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-5064>.
>
> We considered simply changing the default value to a more appropriate
> location, but decided against this because the expected filesystem structure
> varies from platform to platform, and because it isn't guaranteed that the
> Mesos agent would have access to the default path on a particular platform.
>
> Eliminating the default `--work_dir` value means that the agent would exit
> immediately if the flag is not provided, whereas currently it launches
> successfully in this case. This will break existing infrastructure which
> relies on launching the Mesos agent without specifying the work directory. I
> believe this is an acceptable change because '/tmp/mesos' is not a suitable
> location for the agent work directory except for short-term local testing,
> and any production scenario that is currently using this location should be
> altered immediately.
>
> If you have any thoughts/opinions/concerns regarding this change, please let
> us know!
>
> Cheers,
> Greg
