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📅 Original date posted:2011-06-15
🗒️ Summary of this message: A suggestion was made to allow the wallet.dat location to be specified in preferences, but it was explained that all databases must be in the datadir due to the transactional environment.
📝 Original message:On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at exmulti.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
I am a Berkley DB ignoramus , but how is specifying the wallet file
path different than using a symlink?
Also I think that allowing the user to open more than one wallet helps
the user develop an intuition for the system.
A simple task like opening transferring coins from one to the other is
currently very awkward on the same installation.
Ted

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