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@brief path to the database
--database.directory directory
The directory containing the collections and datafiles. Defaults to /var/lib/arango. When specifying the database directory, please make sure the directory is actually writable by the arangod process.
You should further not use a database directory which is provided by a network filesystem such as NFS. The reason is that networked filesystems might cause inconsistencies when there are multiple parallel readers or writers or they lack features required by arangod (e.g. flock()).
Additionally errors have been reported for some filesystems mounted with mount option NOEXEC. To be on the safe side, ArangoDB's database directory should reside in a filesystem that has not been mounted with the NOEXEC option.
directory
When using the command line version, you can simply supply the database directory as argument.
@EXAMPLES
> ./arangod --server.endpoint tcp://127.0.0.1:8529 --database.directory
/tmp/vocbase