[Exist-open] Re: Re: Feature request: journal-dir relative to exist.home

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That is a good point Michael, however I believe both behaviors could (and
should) be supported. An absolute path needs no further processing
whereas a relative path should be evaluated starting at exist.home.
I believe this is exactly the way that other file paths are evaluated in
the exist configuration.

regards, Peter

> A word of caution here. At the moment, that path can be system-absolute,
> and I think it's important to keep it that way. In general: because I'd
> argue that a journal belongs in a different filesystem (maybe on a
> physically different machine) from the data it's journalling. And in
> particular: because on current builds at least, the journal grows to
> massive proportions (way beyond the configured limits) if a large
> collection is deleted in a single operation. I have regularly seen the
> journal logfile exceed 6 Gigabytes (I write that in full in case anyone
> thinks its a typo).  This caused me much grief until I moved it into
> its own 10G partition....
>
> Michael Beddow