[DOCS-4429] --noprealloc option (storage.preallocDataFiles) is deprecated Created: 25/Nov/14  Updated: 28/Sep/16  Resolved: 26/Nov/14

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: v1.3.14, mongodb-2.6, mongodb-3.0

Type: Improvement Priority: Minor - P4
Reporter: Matt Kangas Assignee: Michael Paik
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
Labels: None
Remaining Estimate: Not Specified
Time Spent: Not Specified
Original Estimate: Not Specified

Issue Links:
Documented
documents SERVER-14588 prealloc of datafiles not on by defau... Closed
Participants:
Days since reply: 9 years, 12 weeks ago

 Description   

The --noprealloc option has no effect in 2.6 and 2.8. (See SERVER-14588).

We're not going to fix it. It makes no sense for storage engines besides mmapv1.

Suggested changes to the manual:



 Comments   
Comment by Githook User [ 26/Nov/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'mpaik', u'name': u'Michael Paik', u'email': u'mpaik@users.noreply.github.com'}

Message: Merge pull request #2068 from kangas/DOCS-4429-noprealloc

DOCS-4429 --noprealloc is deprecated
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/f582a1547e6be11e92448ca97da1daaa68bfbe1b

Comment by Githook User [ 26/Nov/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'mpaik', u'name': u'Michael Paik', u'email': u'mpaik@users.noreply.github.com'}

Message: Merge pull request #2068 from kangas/DOCS-4429-noprealloc

DOCS-4429 --noprealloc is deprecated
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/f582a1547e6be11e92448ca97da1daaa68bfbe1b

Comment by Githook User [ 26/Nov/14 ]

Author:

{u'username': u'kangas', u'name': u'Matt Kangas', u'email': u'matt.kangas@mongodb.com'}

Message: DOCS-4429 --noprealloc is deprecated
Branch: master
https://github.com/mongodb/docs/commit/8ff82869c72bbba9536d361195db24c6c83e60d0

Comment by Matt Kangas [ 25/Nov/14 ]

We should change this also:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/storage/#why-are-the-files-in-my-data-directory-larger-than-the-data-in-my-database

2.6 actually does not preallocate data files.

Generated at Thu Feb 08 07:47:58 UTC 2024 using Jira 9.7.1#970001-sha1:2222b88b221c4928ef0de3161136cc90c8356a66.