[DRILL-4838] Storage plugin directory location visibility in installation guide

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: Documentation

Environment

Windows 7 64 bits

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Arnaud Linz
• Created: 09/Aug/16 14:45
• Updated: 09/Aug/16 14:45

Description

For security reasons, my system prevents any user (but the administrator) to write at the C:\ level.
When following the installation instruction and starting Drill embedded for windows, it tries to create a storage in /tmp (it does not use the environment variables such as TEMP or TMP) and fails.

There is a variable sys.store.provider.local.path that can be set to solve that problem, but it lacks visibility in the installation guide (it is documented further in the configuration section).