Mounting via --volume fails about docker-neo4j

[ekkis]

ok. figured it out. the home page here:

https://hub.docker.com/r/neo4j/neo4j/

indicates that I can mount volumes in the way I did. however, what it doesn't say is that on OSX, the Docker daemon runs within a VM and therefore the path given points to that VM's filesystem. I have learned however, that the VM automatically maps the /Users directory to the hosting system, thus placing my graph.db directory within that tree will work. do keep in mind however that:

cd ~/data
docker run --volume .:/data

won't work because the reference is not to the local filesystem but to the VM's, thus:

cd ~/data
docker run --volume ~/data:/data

will work. I'm leaving this issue open so the maintainers of that site fix the page to add this information for us OSX users

[benbc]

@ekkis I'm glad you worked that out. Since this is a standard Docker-on-OSX thing, rather than specific to the Neo4j image, I'd rather not add it to the image docs. We're trying to keep those docs as simple and comprehensible as possible and it's going to be a struggle to do that as we add more behaviour to the image.

[benbc]

I've now added some general advice about OSX to the README: 24259da.