Received: from sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.191] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1TCMBl-0008QM-Ou for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:03:29 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.214.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.214.175; envelope-from=grarpamp@gmail.com; helo=mail-ob0-f175.google.com; Received: from mail-ob0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]) by sog-mx-1.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1TCMBk-0000ZS-Og for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:03:29 +0000 Received: by obblz20 with SMTP id lz20so5956233obb.34 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:03:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.164.103 with SMTP id yp7mr1312438obb.26.1347591803184; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.152.129 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:03:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 23:03:23 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (grarpamp[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature 0.6 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Headers-End: 1TCMBk-0000ZS-Og Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] separate out blockchain db and wallet to two dirs? X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 03:03:29 -0000 Linux typically uses the FHS, which various distros often bastardize: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb/fhs BSD typically uses the traditional hierarchy, for which admins often add /home and /opt: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/share/man/man7/hier.7?revision=HEAD&view=markup You'd have to read them both and decide which camp you're in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard Since bitcoin isn't really an X app at it's core, XDG doesn't really apply. http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html Further, bitcoin doesn't allow easy separation of the files without detachdb (off by default), nor does it supply a user agnostic system daemon to do the block processing separately from user wallet ops. So I would suggest until then it remain split up somewhere under .bitcoin rather than in /var or anywhere else. And when you figure out where I should place my messages in full the first time, please let me know because I obviously need help.