Document IPAM persistence

Remove statement that nothing is persisted in IPAM
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Bryan Boreham committed 2016-04-19 13:45:49 +01:00
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@@ -210,11 +210,3 @@ reached the peer that does the `rmpeer`, then we get an inconsistent
ring. We could make it safe, up to partitions, by inquiring of every
live peer what its view of the dead peer is, and making sure we use
the latest info.)
## Limitations
Nothing is persisted. If one peer restarts it should receive gossip
from other peers showing what it used to own, and in that case it can
recover quite well. If, however, there are no peers left alive, or
this peer cannot establish network communication with those that are,
then it cannot recover.
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@@ -175,6 +175,18 @@ the rest (a partition), they can continue to work with the address
ranges they had before isolation, and can subsequently be re-connected
to the rest of the network without any conflicts arising.
### <a name="persistence"></a>Data persistence
Key IPAM data is saved to disk, so that it is immediately available
when the peer restarts:
* The division of the IP allocation range amongst peers
* Allocation of addresses to containers on the local peer
A [data volume
container](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/dockervolumes/#creating-and-mounting-a-data-volume-container)
named `weavedb` is used to store this data.
**See Also**
* [Automatic Allocation Across Multiple Subnets](/site/ipam/allocation-multi-ipam.md)