'dbengine multihost disk space' vs 'dbengine multihost disk space MB'

[NorbertK]

Problem/Question

I have some older configurations which use the parameter dbengine multihost disk space instead of dbengine multihost disk space MB .

Is there a difference in practice ?

And what is the relationship / difference between dbengine multihost disk space MB and dbengine disk space MB

Documentation i used

dbengine directory growing despite configured disk usage limits

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[ilyam8]

Hey, @NorbertK.

TL;DR use dbengine multihost disk space MB

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dbengine multihost disk space MB takes into account the allocation of space for the parent node and all of its child nodes.

I see that dbengine disk space MB is deprecated, but we haven’t removed it from the config yet.