[ZOOKEEPER-1068] Documentation and default config suggest incorrect location for Zookeeper state

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: documentation, scripts
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 23/May/11 23:08
• Updated: 23/Nov/11 19:22
• Resolved: 21/Jun/11 17:24

Description

Documentation and default config suggest /var/zookeeper as a value for dataDir. This practice is, strictly speaking, incompatible with UNIX/Linux filesystem layout standards (e.g. http://www.s-gms.ms.edus.si/cgi-bin/man-cgi?filesystem+5 , http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/index.html ).

Even though Zookeeper use is not limited to UNIX-like OSes I'd recommend that we change references to /var/zookeeper to /var/lib/zookeeper