We have written the relevant documentation, you can see
https://apache-iotdb.feishu.cn/docx/SG1DdQklco67oaxSLbYcghWxnkc.
> 2023年7月12日 20:45，Christofer Dutz <[email protected]> 写道：
>
> Hi,
>
> so playing around with IoTDB running in embedded mode, I noticed that it
> creates a directory “data” which totally makes sense to me, as it contains
> all the data.
> However it also creates a whole tree under “ext” which just seems to contain
> loads of empty directories.
> What’s the purpose of these and could we prevent them from being created, if
> they are not needed?
>
> ext
> /pipe
> /install
> /tmp
> /trigger
> /install
> /tmp
> /udf
> /install
> /tmp
>
>
> Chris
