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achow101

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Quote from: ingvar_e on March 25, 2017, 01:59:06 PM

Quote from: achow101 on March 23, 2017, 09:26:46 PM

Yes, but storing the blockchain data on a network share will not work. The LevelDB databases require being locally on disk in order to operate properly.

OK, I see. If I want my wallet to be on another location how do I inform the bitcoin program that. As it is now I pass the parameter " -datadir=D:\BitcoinData
and it contains both the "block" folder and the wallet

You would have to use a symlink to have your wallet.dat file stored elsewhere as currently you cannot specify a path to the wallet file. You can specify a different name for the file though, just not the path to the file.

icanscript

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I suppose if you had a CIFS Mount / mapped drive to a file server maybe a local NAS it could work?

It would be extremely slow and most likely break across any network with latency (internet) I imagine.

Someone with more in depth knowledge on this would need to confirm though.

ingvar_e

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Quote from: achow101 on March 23, 2017, 09:26:46 PM

Yes, but storing the blockchain data on a network share will not work. The LevelDB databases require being locally on disk in order to operate properly.

OK, I see. If I want my wallet to be on another location how do I inform the bitcoin program that. As it is now I pass the parameter " -datadir=D:\BitcoinData
and it contains both the "block" folder and the wallet

achow101

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Just writing some code

Yes, but storing the blockchain data on a network share will not work. The LevelDB databases require being locally on disk in order to operate properly.

ingvar_e

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The "default" configuration when running bitcoin on a computer seems to be to store all data in the same folder and pass the data directory that hold both blockchain and the wallet
when starting bitcoin Core.

I travel between Stockholm and Las Palmas so I would like to store the blockchain part on my file server. I do not want to store my wallet on the file server.

Is it possible to have different directories for the wallet and the blockchain data?

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