keeping storage data dir across dev-container rebuilds

Thomas Segismont tsegismo at redhat.com
Wed Jul 10 08:20:05 UTC 2013


+1

Would it be a system property? If so for dev environments we could set 
up a RHQ_STORAGE_ADDITIONAL_JAVA_OPTS variable.

Le 10/07/2013 05:02, John Sanda a écrit :
> rebuild your dev-container, there is currently no way to keep the
> existing storage data directories. This is inconsistent with the
> relational db where you can rebuild your server while keeping the
> relational db intact. There is a validation to check in the storage
> installer to fail the installation if the specified data directories are
> non-empty. I think this makes sense, particularly for production
> scenarios; however, we do want to be able to keep our storage db intact
> in the dev-container like we do with postgres. I was thinking about
> adding an option to the storage installer that could turn off
> that validation check. The option wouldn't even have to be included in
> the help/usage. It could remain undocumented since it is really intended
> for dev use. What do people think?



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