Github user sijie commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/189 @jvrao sorry, what is the performance problem behind this? is there anything I missed in this conversation? If a user configures multiple journal directories, can we dedup and use one journal directory per disk partition? If we dedup, there is no performance degradation and there is no backward compatibility issue, right? For example, we open a entrylog file by calling **ledgerDirsManager.getWritableLedgerDirsForNewLog()** , the dirs manager can handle the duplication (make sure one directory per disk partition is used) and return the right directory. By doing this, all the directory/disk partition related complexity is hidden and managed and people don't have the know the details. I don't have any strong opinion adding another setting. My feeling is that we are not taking the right approach to address the problem here.
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