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authorLamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>2016-03-11 10:48:12 -0800
committerLamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>2016-03-11 10:48:12 -0800
commit02d8ce3e402b34f838d3f449f048163b75b724e4 (patch)
treeb5c12a143803fa989d2bc371bb5fb8d9c54afe2f
parent7f970035bee3ea4ac0c582df0fcffaf3df516d6d (diff)
downloadchef-lcg/yell-at-users.tar.gz
this is a really, really bad setting to tweaklcg/yell-at-users
people are actually doing this in order to work around issues with writing /etc/hosts in docker containers. they should seriously stop doing it and fix this problem in the cookbooks.
-rw-r--r--chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb b/chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb
index 3a20469397..d2a4bddba0 100644
--- a/chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb
+++ b/chef-config/lib/chef-config/config.rb
@@ -703,6 +703,9 @@ module ChefConfig
# Use atomic updates (i.e. move operation) while updating contents
# of the files resources. When set to false copy operation is
# used to update files.
+ #
+ # NOTE: CHANGING THIS SETTING MAY CAUSE CORRUPTION, DATA LOSS AND
+ # INSTABILITY.
default :file_atomic_update, true
# There are 3 possible values for this configuration setting.