Fresh Install: Where is .silverbullet.db.json?

v2: Troubleshooting
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My Setup

I have a fresh install of silverbullet via docker compose:

# docker-compose.yml

services:
  silverbullet:
    image: zefhemel/silverbullet:v2
    restart: unless-stopped
    userns_mode: host  # I have userns remapping enabled
    user: "1000:1000"  # in my Docker Daemon 
    volumes:
      - ${HOME}/notes:/space
    labels:
      traefik.http.services.silverbullet.loadbalancer.server.port: 3000
      # ...and other traefik config

My ~/notes directory is not empty, but I removed all silverbullet-generated files there (both v1 and v2) before spinning up the container:

$ docker compose down silverbullet
$ rm -rf ~/notes/.silverbullet*
$ rm -rf ~/notes/index.md
$ rm -rf ~/notes/SETTINGS.md
$ rm -rf ~/notes/CONFIG.md
$ docker compose up -d silverbullet

The Problem

The logs reference the creation of a .silverbullet.db.json file, but no such file exists in the container or the host filesystem:

$ docker logs -f silverbullet
silverbullet  | Storing database in /space/.silverbullet.db.json.
silverbullet  | Starting SilverBullet binding to 0.0.0.0:3000
silverbullet  | Using local disk as a storage backend: /space
silverbullet  | Listening on http://0.0.0.0:3000/ (http://localhost:3000/)
silverbullet  | SilverBullet is now running: http://localhost:3000
... <TRUNCATED>

$ docker exec -it silverbullet ls /space/.silverbullet.db.json
ls: cannot access '/space/.silverbullet.db.json': No such file or directory

$ ls ~/notes/.silverbullet.db.json
"/home/rlue/notes/.silverbullet.db.json": No such file or directory (os error 2)

What’s going on here? I also tried this with a volume mount to a totally empty directory, and observed the same thing.

2

The .silverbullet.db.json’s function is to cache some auth related information, if you don’t use it likely this file isn’t even created. In v1 there was a server side DB. In v2 this is no longer a thing.

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I see, so the log statement indicates the “DB”'s configured location, but does not indicate that the file is actually being created. Thanks for your speedy reply and for an amazing, amazing utility. I look forward to getting fully set up with it!

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