Github user sijie commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper/pull/189 >> re 1. I am not aware if they are users configuring in this way. but I am not sure if this is the case for flagging as error. because in current implementation, such configuration doesn't have any performance impacts. if this flag is necessarily for multiple entry log files, I would defer adding this flag when reviewing the multiple-active-entry-log-files change. because it is not very clear about the problem and benefits. >> re 2> this sounds like a policy problem - how to choose the directory to place the entry log files to achieve balance between disk partitions? currently bookie asks the ledgerdirs manager for a ledger directory. the ledger disks can do a better job for balancing the placement of entry log files. >> re 3. if we have a policy abstraction in LedgerDirsManager, we can have a better policy on how to pick up the entry log files for write. in this way, we can balance the disk usage and I/O usage. I am seeing a trend of adding more and more configuration settings into the bookies. some are strongly required. some doesn't seem to be really needed. In this pull request, the configuration doesn't seem to be the right solution that address the problems that you guys are listing. it seems to be me a flag to mask the underneath problems and this flag will most likely be used anymore when we have the correct solution in place.
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