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| author | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-18 14:32:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Wladimir J. van der Laan <laanwj@gmail.com> | 2017-11-18 14:41:15 +0100 |
| commit | d080a7d5030e65480a38d0841235900bdfa83702 (patch) | |
| tree | bfe96788d84db9f454ad603b3d15655460d437cf /doc | |
| parent | 49667a77e76aa709717a09916b55ff671e9c6704 (diff) | |
| parent | c1e5d40e166f0b9ad832c14747e77322ab439185 (diff) | |
Merge #11466: Specify custom wallet directory with -walletdir param
c1e5d40 Make debugging test crash easier (MeshCollider)
8263f6a Create walletdir if datadir doesn't exist and fix tests (MeshCollider)
9587a9c Default walletdir is wallets/ if it exists (MeshCollider)
d987889 Add release notes for -walletdir and wallets/ dir (MeshCollider)
80c5cbc Add test for -walletdir (MeshCollider)
0530ba0 Add -walletdir parameter to specify custom wallet dir (MeshCollider)
Pull request description:
Closes #11348
Adds a `-walletdir` parameter which specifies a directory to use for wallets, allowing them to be stored separately from the 'main' data directory. Creates a new `wallets/` directory in datadir if this is the first time running, and defaults to using it if it exists.
Includes tests and release notes. Things which might need to be considered more:
- there is no 'lock' on the wallets directory, which might be needed?
- because this uses a new wallets/ directory by default, downgrading to an earlier version won't see the wallets in that directory (not a big deal though, users can just copy them up to the main dir)
- jnewbery suggested putting each wallet in its own directory, which is a good idea, but out of scope for this PR IMO. EDIT: this is being done in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/11687
- doc/files.md needs updating (will do soon)
I also considered including a cleanup by removing caching of data directory paths and instead just initialise them once on startup (c.f. #3073), but decided it wasn't super relevant here will just complicate review.
Tree-SHA512: c8ac04bfe9a810c32055f2c8b8fa0d535e56125ceb8d96f12447dd3538bf3e5ee992b60b1cd2173bf5f3fa023a9feab12c9963593bf27ed419df929bb413398d
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release-notes.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index 6e4fed0a2d..32f1bef62c 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ How to Upgrade ============== If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely -shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the +shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over `/Applications/Bitcoin-Qt` (on Mac) or `bitcoind`/`bitcoin-qt` (on Linux). @@ -62,6 +62,20 @@ Due to a backward-incompatible change in the wallet database, wallets created with version 0.16.0 will be rejected by previous versions. Also, version 0.16.0 will only create hierarchical deterministic (HD) wallets. +Custom wallet directories +--------------------- +The ability to specify a directory other than the default data directory in which to store +wallets has been added. An existing directory can be specified using the `-walletdir=<dir>` +argument. Wallets loaded via `-wallet` arguments must be in this wallet directory. Care should be taken +when choosing a wallet directory location, as if it becomes unavailable during operation, +funds may be lost. + +Default wallet directory change +-------------------------- +On new installations (if the data directory doesn't exist), wallets will now be stored in a +new `wallets/` subdirectory inside the data directory. If this `wallets/` subdirectory +doesn't exist (i.e. on existing nodes), the current datadir root is used instead, as it was. + Low-level RPC changes ---------------------- - The deprecated RPC `getinfo` was removed. It is recommended that the more specific RPCs are used: |