Hello Andreas
1) Is Geoserver supposed to use the embedded data dir in the application
> server, too, maybe as fallback for missing configs or is that directory
> never used at all?
>
The embedded data dir should only be used if an external data dir is not
specified, or if the external data dir cannot be found (for instance if it
is on a mounted drive and there is a connection issue)
> 2) Where are the UUIDs in the embedded data dir coming from? Are they
> newly generated everytime a GeoServer is initially installed? Or are they
> contained in the GeoServer distribution already, together with the entire
> default data dir and just unpacked (so all GeoServers globally have the
> same UUIDs) ?
>
The UUIDs in the embeded data dir come from the release data dir here
<https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/tree/master/data/release/styles>,
which is contained by the GeoServer distribution. So yes, they will be the
same among all GeoServers globally (For example, the UUID for the generic
style is StyleInfoImpl-37b18cc6:14d5d036d48:-8000).
If all data dirs, including the embedded data directory is unavailable for
some reason (e.g. it was manually deleted), then a basic data dir will be
generated on startup.
I'm still not quite sure how this issue could have come about in the first
place.
Torben
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