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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 10:32:39 -0700
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From: Theodore Witkamp <theodore.witkamp@gmail.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
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Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Release priorities for v0.4?
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Mark Visser <mjmvisser@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>> I humbly suggest allowing the wallet.dat location to be specified in the=
 preferences. Being able to easily physically disconnect a wallet by unplug=
ging a USB key seems like a good idea.
>
> That's what -datadir is for. =C2=A0Unfortunately -all- databases must be =
in
> the datadir, because wallet.dat is a berkeley db, and we need a
> transactional environment. =C2=A0That makes it difficult to move just one
> file.

I am a Berkley DB ignoramus , but how is specifying the wallet file
path different than using a symlink?

Also I think that allowing the user to open more than one wallet helps
the user develop an intuition for the system.
A simple task like opening transferring coins from one to the other is
currently very awkward on the same installation.

Ted