Changing default configuration

Ryan S. Brown ryansb at redhat.com
Thu Feb 12 19:40:21 UTC 2015


On 02/10/2015 09:16 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 14:38 +0100, Marek Skalický wrote:
>> Matthew Miller píše v Út 10. 02. 2015 v 06:19 -0500:
>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:12:15PM +0100, Marek Skalický wrote:
>>>> does someone know what are Fedora Guidelines (or something similar)
>>>> saying about this bug
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1077369 ?
>>>> Is is possible to change default configuration file depending on
>>>> available free space?
>>>
>>> Generally, making such a decision at install time is bad, because that
>>> might not reflect _runtime_. For example, in the cloud image, we use a
>>> / filesystem as small as Anaconda will allow, but that grows to fill
>>> available storage when the image is booted.
>>>
>>> Is there a way to make this decision when mongodb runs?
>>>
>>
>> It should be possible to code this into sysv init script. But I am not
>> sure if it is possible to do the same in systemd service...?
>>
>> My question was also about whether this should be done by mongoDB? Or
>> there should be default configuration and user can easily change it in
>> configuration file?
> 
> It should be done by MongoDB, I would get in touch with the upstream and
> discuss the problem with them.
> 
>> Marek

I don't think there should be run- *or* install-time determination on
this. Smallfiles is used for more than just free space reasons and only
the end operator knows whether they need it or not. There's a documented
upstream default, and it's the operator's job to change it if they need to.

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Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.


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