keeping storage data dir across dev-container rebuilds

John Sanda jsanda at redhat.com
Wed Jul 10 11:56:51 UTC 2013


The easiest thing would be to add another command line option that would be set in rhq-storage.properties. We only generate rhq-storage.properties for dev builds, and that provides dev-container defaults.


On Jul 10, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Thomas Segismont <tsegismo at redhat.com> wrote:

> +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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