From 3412c51029faf392b44874459b10c40749f986f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sridhar Ratnakumar <3998+srid@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:55:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs(datadir): Add context to this gotcha --- doc/datadir.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/datadir.md b/doc/datadir.md index 947c926..1caa142 100644 --- a/doc/datadir.md +++ b/doc/datadir.md @@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ The data directory structure will look like this: {#socket-path} ### Unix-domain socket path is too long -unix socket length is limited to [about 100 chars](https://linux.die.net/man/7/unix). If your data directory is nested too deep, you will have to set `dataDir` option of the service to a shorter path as a workaround. +Some services create unix domain socket files under the data directory. As the unix socket length is limited to [about 100 chars](https://linux.die.net/man/7/unix), if your data directory is nested too deep, you will have to set `dataDir` option of the service to a shorter path as a workaround.