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Jay Kreps commented on KAFKA-1130:
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I agree this is a tad bit ambiguous. However the concept of a "log" is front
and center in Kafka (the first sentence on the main page of the site is "Apache
Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log.").
Is it really confusing people?
> "log.dirs" is a confusing property name
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> Key: KAFKA-1130
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1130
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: config
> Affects Versions: 0.8
> Reporter: David Arthur
> Priority: Minor
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> "log.dirs" is a somewhat misleading config name. The term "log" comes from an
> internal Kafka class name, and shouldn't leak out into the public API (in
> this case, the config).
> Something like "data.dirs" would be less confusing.
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