[jira] [Commented] (KAFKA-1130) "log.dirs" is a confusing property name

["Joe Stein (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Joe Stein commented on KAFKA-1130:
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data.dirs is less confusing, yup.  

we should keep backwards compatibility.  

if we are storing the message data for a partition it may not hurt to have more clarity at the sake of some brevity so there is no confusion to what it is.

if we make this change we should be consistent with the other log.*.* configurations 

maybe log.data.dirs or revamp everything log.* with something more message/data centric?

> "log.dirs" is a confusing property name
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KAFKA-1130
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1130
>             Project: Kafka
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: config
>    Affects Versions: 0.8
>            Reporter: David Arthur
>            Priority: Minor
>
> "log.dirs" is a somewhat misleading config name. The term "log" comes from an internal Kafka class name, and shouldn't leak out into the public API (in this case, the config).
> Something like "data.dirs" would be less confusing.



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