[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [Tahoe-LAFS] #2045: Make the paths of the different folders configurable

[Tahoe-LAFS]

#2045: Make the paths of the different folders configurable
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     Reporter:  meskio   |      Owner:  leif
         Type:           |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:  1.13.0
    Component:  code-    |    Version:  1.10.0
  nodeadmin              |   Keywords:  FHS unix daemon twistd review-
   Resolution:           |  needed multiuser-gateway
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Comment (by rvs):

 I did a review and had some questions/comments.

 Regarding overall discussion, and as another sysadmin:

 - it is undoubtedly good to have an option to configure all the paths and
 may be critical for some installs. Thanks for the pull request!

 - I don't think that just sticking everything to something like
 `/var/lib/tahoe` is against FHS, especially given tahoe is non a system-
 wide, but device-wide service (I suspect it is very common to have node
 per physical storage device).

 - also, I think FHS is dead and hardly makes sense in modern world of
 docker and static builds. Sadly it will take Debian and other traditional
 distros quite a while to figure this out.

 - As a sysadmin, I'd be pissed if Debian ships tahoe with very non-
 standard mangled configuration just for FHS sake and makes magic behind my
 back to automatically create and start a node.

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2045#comment:61>
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