jaikiran pai created KAFKA-1906:
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Summary: Default the Kafka log directory to a relative path within
the Kafka installation directory
Key: KAFKA-1906
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1906
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: core, log
Reporter: jaikiran pai
Assignee: jaikiran pai
During one of the discussions on kafka-dev mailing list, a point was raised
that the current /tmp/kafka-logs default path for storing the Kafka data wasn't
probably a good idea and instead we should default it to a relative path within
the Kafka installation directory:
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Having a relative path and keeping data under /data in the kafka distro
would make sense. This would require some reworking of the shell scripts,
though, as I think right now you an actually run Kafka from any directory
and the cwd of the process will be whatever directory you start from. If we
have a relative path in the config then the working directory will HAVE to
be the kafka directory. This works for the simple download case but may
making some packaging stuff harder for other use cases.
{quote}
The discussion is here
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/kafka-dev/201501.mbox/%3ccaoejijga38ktwh4jyfsu4w8idxybf-_ze_b748txsorp8yz...@mail.gmail.com%3E
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