[WHIRR-183] ZooKeeper Data Directory Cleanup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Component/s: service/zookeeper
• Assignee: Andrei Savu
• Reporter: Andrei Savu
• Created: 30/Dec/10 22:23
• Updated: 31/Jan/11 21:53
• Resolved: 31/Jan/11 21:53

Description

"A ZooKeeper server will not remove old snapshots and log files, this is the responsibility of the operator."

[1] http://hadoop.apache.org/zookeeper/docs/r3.1.1/zookeeperAdmin.html#sc_maintenance

The install script should also add a cron task as suggested:

java -cp zookeeper.jar:log4j.jar:conf org.apache.zookeeper.server.PurgeTxnLog <dataDir> <snapDir> -n <count>