[sheepdog-users] sheepdog (0.4.0-0+tek2b-10) testing; urgency=high

[Dietmar Maurer]

> I think it is always good to reserved port 7000 for gateway only instance and
> so /var/lib/sheepdog/gateway-only. Because gateway-only has no data, we
> can remove and create empty directory for each start and no special
> parameters are needed. What do you think?

A gateway will also need data dir to cache things - most likely on SSD?

So I think there is no special need for that.

I do not want to introduce too much magic here.

> For sheep instance containing data your approach with the setup file seems
> to be a fine way. But I think it is not good idea to created the file
> automatically, just don't start if it doesn't exist.

I don't really understand that? I do not create  anything 'automatically'?

- Dietmar