mxcl/homebrew — Issue #9993: Why does MongoDB have a --no-journal option?
Author: adamv
Created: 2012-02-05 19:39:36+00:00
State: open

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/mongodb.rb#L97

Our formula for MongoDB has an option `--no-journal` which does not affect compilation (since we don't compile from source), it only changes the default conf file that gets written out.

Why do we have this?

We should not be in the business of letting the user configure the sample conf file through installing the formula. We should just write out the bare minimum config that is needed, or none if none is actually needed, and let the user read the MongoDB manual to figure out options.