Path of data.ms

[curquiza]

I open this post to eventually reconsider the default path of MeiliSearch. Not a priority, just open the discussion.

Currentlty the default path of MeiliSearch is the path where we launch MeiliSearch. It means

• when you launch the MeiliSearch downloaded binary, data.ms is created where you have launched the binary -> this might be expected
• when you launch MeiliSearch using brew, the data.ms is created in your current working directory -> this might not be expected, investigation and user feedbacks are needed. Sometimes, depending on the DB, the data are store in the /var folder for example
• when launching MeiliSearch using Docker, the data.ms is in the current working directory, so in /home/meili/data.ms, since the meili user is running in the container.

We might consider using a consistent path to store MeiliSearch by default, like /var/lib/postgresql/data for PostgreSQL.
Again, we need investigation and user feedback about what is "naturally" expected before changing anything.

Some related issues:

• Using Docker, Meilisearch v0.24 does not write data in /data.ms anymore meilisearch#1969