Tips and Tricks (!?)

Arneko · February 11, 2016, 1:08am

You suggested it in my ticket here

github.com/syncthing/syncthing

optionally move index.db folder

opened 04:23PM - 03 Sep 15 UTC

closed 05:10PM - 03 Sep 15 UTC

arneko

frozen-due-to-age

Hello, I remember a discussion a while back about moving the index folder to .c…ache (in Linux), can't seem to find it now though. I have a similar/other suggestion about that too and would be interested in hearing opinions. How about an optional key in the config.xml for an alternative database location, so I could move the database out of ~/.config/%appdata% (or whatever it is on windows) to wherever I wanted? The reasons being: a) Right now we use .config (which is for configs) to store a (potentially) relatively large database. So if I wanted to backup my configs, I definitely need more than a few kB but instead a few (hundred) MB. databases and the like are better off in .cache in general.... b) for a multiboot environment, where I store all my synced data on a different partition (say ntfs formatted) so I can access it from more than one OS it would be helpful to keep seperate "config.xml"s but the same database. My experience is, that I get lots of conflicts on "OSshared"-repos on such partitions otherwise (for reasons known to me, that could be avoided with a common db) c) -this is somewhat similar to a) but a more pressing matter to me- The database can get _really_ large. I share about 500GB with my server on my laptop - I just saw that syncthing died on windows, leaving me with a 15GB database. It does the same on Linux occasionally (wrote about it on the forum after seeing other people with similar problems). It shrinks back once I restart syncthing (if I can- if there's no space left, it won't startup to clean it's own mess) I know I can change the home-directory to achieve something similar. Doing so would have a few drawbacks though: 1. It wouldn't work well for the configs in case b) due to different repo-paths, 2. I like synctrayzor in windows or syncthing gtk- not sure howto give syncthing any arguments with it (didn't try, I admit) 3. integration with systemd/upstart would require me to change the parameters in the according service files 4. it wouldn't solve a) 5. It'd feel like a real messy solution I probably wouldn't really care for all this so much if syncthing wouldn't grow it's database so much from time to time - so, if you don't think moving the db out of the config folder is a good idea, I'd be interested to know what causes this uncontrollable growth...

and implied scepticism here (works great btw)

But maybe it was just an honest question and I misunderstood