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Corey J. Nolet commented on ACCUMULO-1717: ------------------------------------------ [~ste...@apache.org], I understand. I like that Hadoop won't let processes run as root for this very reason. > accumulo should refuse to init or start with a directory of / (especially > file:///) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ACCUMULO-1717 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1717 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: master > Affects Versions: 1.6.0 > Reporter: Steve Loughran > > Accumulo is happy to init the root directory of a file system. It's hard to > see when this would ever be a good idea, especially if that filesystem is > file:/// . A sanity check to catch this -a sign of a bad configuration- would > stop accidentally damaging the filesystem -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira