title: Data v/s Index paths for Couchbase
body: <p>Slide #11 of <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/Couchbase/sizing-couchbase-server-cbc2014-clean" rel="nofollow">http://www.slideshare.net/Couchbase/sizing-couchbase-server-cbc2014-clean</a> suggests using different data paths for data and indexes. What does that mean exactly ?</p>
  
  <p>I see the following under the default data folder ( /opt/couchbase/var/lib/couchbase/data )</p>
  
  <p>1 folder per bucket
  1 folder called @indexes
  some other files.
  The bucket data and index data appears to be in separate paths already. Should they be on separate disks instead ?</p>
  
  <p>Also, As per <a href="http://docs.couchbase.com/admin/admin/Misc/admin-datafiles.html" rel="nofollow">http://docs.couchbase.com/admin/admin/Misc/admin-datafiles.html</a> , 
  "The default disk path is typically used for development purposes only. If the server node is used for production, configure a different disk path." . If the couchbase server node has just 1 disk and is mounted on "/", does it make sense to change the "default" paths ?</p>