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> On Apr 13, 2016, at 11:01 AM, Ken Sipe <kens...@gmail.com> wrote: > > +1 >> On Apr 12, 2016, at 5:58 PM, Greg Mann <g...@mesosphere.io> wrote: >> >> Hey folks! >> A number of situations have arisen in which the default value of the Mesos >> agent `--work_dir` flag (/tmp/mesos) has caused problems on systems in which >> the automatic cleanup of '/tmp' deletes agent metadata. To resolve this, we >> would like to eliminate the default value of the agent `--work_dir` flag. >> You can find the relevant JIRA here. >> >> We considered simply changing the default value to a more appropriate >> location, but decided against this because the expected filesystem structure >> varies from platform to platform, and because it isn't guaranteed that the >> Mesos agent would have access to the default path on a particular platform. >> >> Eliminating the default `--work_dir` value means that the agent would exit >> immediately if the flag is not provided, whereas currently it launches >> successfully in this case. This will break existing infrastructure which >> relies on launching the Mesos agent without specifying the work directory. I >> believe this is an acceptable change because '/tmp/mesos' is not a suitable >> location for the agent work directory except for short-term local testing, >> and any production scenario that is currently using this location should be >> altered immediately. >> >> If you have any thoughts/opinions/concerns regarding this change, please let >> us know! >> >> Cheers, >> Greg >
