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From: Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com>
To: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Bitcoin-development] separate out blockchain db and wallet to two dirs?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:57:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANg8-dCUC=qEqBSay5VKdqZOwEnx_UxYrT2LbV+20Vb1FbCJ1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

This idea is from a Debian user [1].

What do you think of moving the > 2 GB db to $HOME/.cache/bitcoin and
leaving the wallet and other config files in $HOME/.bitcoin? This is
so backups can skip the .cache directory and the proposal follows the
freedesktop.org XDG Base Directory Specification [2]. Personal
info/settings stays in .bitcoin/ and everything that can be rebuilt
goes to .cache/bitcoin/ I know users can do a work around and set it
up themselves with symlinks, but interested in what you guys think.

Cheers,
Scott (Debian Developer but new to bitcoin)



[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660286
[2] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html



             reply	other threads:[~2012-09-14  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-14  1:57 Scott Howard [this message]
2012-09-14  2:15 ` [Bitcoin-development] separate out blockchain db and wallet to two dirs? grarpamp
2012-09-14  2:18   ` Peter Vessenes
2012-09-14  2:59     ` grarpamp
2012-09-14  3:03     ` grarpamp
2012-09-14  5:27 ` Wladimir
2012-09-14  7:40   ` Jeff Garzik

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