📅 Original date posted:2011-06-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: Allowing wallet.dat location in preferences is suggested for easy physical disconnection. However, all databases must be in datadir, making it difficult to move one file.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mark Visser <mjmvisser at gmail.com> wrote:
> I humbly suggest allowing the wallet.dat location to be specified in the preferences. Being able to easily physically disconnect a wallet by unplugging a USB key seems like a good idea.
That's what -datadir is for. Unfortunately -all- databases must be in
the datadir, because wallet.dat is a berkeley db, and we need a
transactional environment. That makes it difficult to move just one
file.
--
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik at exmulti.com
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2023-06-07 01:19:53
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