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David Arthur commented on KAFKA-1130:
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I think people primarily think of Kafka as a queueing system despite the
one-liner on the project page. In that context, "log" is pretty ambiguous.
I opened this JIRA on behalf of someone on IRC who is a system admin type. From
their perspective, they look at the config file and see "log.dirs" and think
application logs.
I like [~joestein]'s idea for "log.data.dirs". The description for that
property could be clarified as well.
> "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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