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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-16175

allowing multiple storage engines in same dbpath creates opportunity for error

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major - P3
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 2.8.0-rc0
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      Consider a scenario where a customer by mistake starts mongod with the wrong storage engine parameter in a production system. Under the current design mongod will start up and create an empty db in dbpath using that wrong storage engine. Queries to that mongod will begin to fail; it may also begin accepting data and putting it in the wrong db, creating a difficult situation to recover from. We could eliminate this possible source of error by refusing to start if the files currently in dbpath are for a storage engine different from the startup option.

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              bruce.lucas@mongodb.com Bruce Lucas (Inactive)
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