On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <[email protected]> wrote: > Den 20. mars 2012 13:59, skrev Martin Hewitt: > >> Is this a CouchDB "thing" or is the init.d script shutting down CouchDB in >> a non-clean fashion that's causing a cautionary rebuild when CouchDB comes >> back up? > > > As far as I'm aware, there's no clean way to shutdown CouchDB. It's designed > that way. You just kill it.
There is no **unclean** way to shut down CouchDB. However CouchDB is not responsible for the bits hitting the metal (or the SSD). Many layers lurk between CouchDB and the disk; so generally speaking the cleaner the shutdown the better. -- Iris Couch
