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Other files can be configured through <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">data_dirs</a> configuration item (see <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">Engine Layer</a> for details).</p><p>In order to support users&#39; storage requirements such as disk space expansion better, IoTDB supports multiple file directories storage methods for TsFile storage configuration. Users can set multiple storage paths as data storage locations( see <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">data_dirs</a> configuration item), and you can specify or customize the directory selection strategy (see <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">multi_dir_strategy</a> configuration item for details).</p><h3 id="tsfile" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#tsfile" aria-hidden="true">#</a> TsFile</h3><blockquote><p>under directory data/sequence or unsequence/{DatabaseName}/{DataRegionId}/{TimePartitionId}/</p></blockquote><ol><li>{time}-{version}-{inner_compaction_count}-{cross_compaction_count}.tsfile <ul><li>normal data file</li></ul></li><li>{TsFileName}.tsfile.mod <ul><li>modification file</li><li>record delete operation</li></ul></li></ol><h3 id="tsfileresource" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#tsfileresource" aria-hidden="true">#</a> TsFileResource</h3><ol><li>{TsFileName}.tsfile.resource <ul><li>descriptor and statistic file of a TsFile</li></ul></li></ol><h3 id="compaction-related-files" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#compaction-related-files" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Compaction Related Files</h3><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/data/sequence or unsequence/{DatabaseName}/</p></blockquote><ol><li>file suffixe with <code>.cross </code> or <code>.inner</code><ul><li>temporary files of metadata generated in a compaction task</li></ul></li><li>file suffixe with <code>.inner-compaction.log</code> or <code>.cross-compaction.log</code><ul><li>record the progress of a compaction task</li></ul></li><li>file suffixe with <code>.compaction.mods</code><ul><li>modification file generated during a compaction task</li></ul></li><li>file suffixe with <code>.meta</code><ul><li>temporary files of metadata generated during a merge</li></ul></li></ol><h2 id="system-files" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#system-files" aria-hidden="true">#</a> System files</h2><p>System files include schema files, which store metadata information of data in IoTDB. It can be configured through the <code>base_dir</code> configuration item (see <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">System Layer</a> for details).</p><h3 id="metadata-related-files" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#metadata-related-files" aria-hidden="true">#</a> MetaData Related Files</h3><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/system/schema</p></blockquote><h4 id="meta" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#meta" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Meta</h4><ol><li>mlog.bin <ul><li>record the meta operation</li></ul></li><li>mtree-1.snapshot <ul><li>snapshot of metadata</li></ul></li><li>mtree-1.snapshot.tmp <ul><li>temp file, to avoid damaging the snapshot when updating it</li></ul></li></ol><h4 id="tags-attributes" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#tags-attributes" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Tags&amp;Attributes</h4><ol><li>tlog.txt <ul><li>store tags and attributes of each TimeSeries</li><li>about 700 bytes for each TimeSeries</li></ul></li></ol><h3 id="other-system-files" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#other-system-files" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Other System Files</h3><h4 id="version" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#version" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Version</h4><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/system/database/{DatabaseName}/{TimePartitionId} or upgrade</p></blockquote><ol><li version="">Version- <ul><li>version file, record the max version in fileName of a storage group</li></ul></li></ol><h4 id="upgrade" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#upgrade" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Upgrade</h4><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/system/upgrade</p></blockquote><ol><li>upgrade.txt <ul><li>record which files have been upgraded</li></ul></li></ol><h4 id="authority" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#authority" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Authority</h4><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/system/users/ under directory basedir/system/roles/</p></blockquote><h4 id="compressratio" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#compressratio" aria-hidden="true">#</a> CompressRatio</h4><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/system/compression_ration</p></blockquote><ol><li calTimes="">Ration-{compressionRatioSum}- <ul><li>record compression ratio of each tsfile</li></ul></li></ol><h2 id="pre-write-log-files" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#pre-write-log-files" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Pre-write Log Files</h2><p>Pre-write log files store WAL files. It can be configured through the <code>wal_dir</code> configuration item (see <a href="/UserGuide/Master/Reference/DataNode-Config-Manual.html" class="">System Layer</a> for details).</p><blockquote><p>under directory basedir/wal</p></blockquote><ol><li>{DatabaseName}-{TsFileName}/wal1 <ul><li>every storage group has several wal files, and every memtable has one associated wal file before it is flushed into a TsFile</li></ul></li></ol><h2 id="example-of-setting-data-storage-directory" tabindex="-1"><a class="header-anchor" href="#example-of-setting-data-storage-directory" aria-hidden="true">#</a> Example of Setting Data storage Directory</h2><p>For a clearer understanding of configuring the data storage directory, we will give an example in this section.</p><p>The data directory path included in storage directory setting are: base_dir, data_dirs, multi_dir_strategy, and wal_dir, which refer to system files, data folders, storage strategy, and pre-write log files.</p><p>An example of the configuration items are as follows:</p><div class="language-text line-numbers-mode" data-ext="text"><pre class="language-text"><code>dn_system_dir = $IOTDB_HOME/data/datanode/system
dn_data_dirs = /data1/datanode/data, /data2/datanode/data, /data3/datanode/data 
dn_multi_dir_strategy=MaxDiskUsableSpaceFirstStrategy
dn_wal_dirs= $IOTDB_HOME/data/datanode/wal
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