Where is the location of Blockchain Data Files on a Peer Container?

We known that each peer container needs to maintain a copy of the ledger data for each channel it joined.

Ledger data is divided into 2 parts: World State and Blockchain.

The World State data is stored in a database, like Go LevelDB of CouchDB.

The Blockchain data is stored in files, one file per block.

By default, the location of Blockchain data files are located in the /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains directory on the peer container.

You can run the "docker exec" command to look at them:

$ docker exec peer0.org1.example.com ls -l \
   /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Apr  1 01:10 chains
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr  1 01:10 index

$ docker exec peer0.org1.example.com ls -l \
   /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains/chains/mychannel
-rw-r-----    1 root     root         77018 Apr  1 15:30 blockfile_000000

You can also take a copy of the block file with the "docker cp" command:

$ docker exec peer0.org1.example.com ls -l \
   /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          4096 Apr  1 01:10 chains
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          4096 Apr  1 01:10 index

$ docker cp peer0.org1.example.com:\
   /var/hyperledger/production/ledgersData/chains/chains/mychannel/blockfile_000000 .

Since ledgers are divided by channels, each channel will have it's own blockchain. This is why block files are separated by channels.

 

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