[chef] Re: chef server 11 and cookbooks storage

[Seth Falcon < >]

On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:41 PM, Kirill Timofeev wrote:

> Hi Andrey,
> 
> currently I'm playing with chef server 11 and while encountering different 
> issues sometime I want to see what is stored on server to have better 
> understanding what can be wrong. So while downloading cookbooks using knife 
> is definitely useful and way to go in general I'm interested in exploring 
> chef server data structures.

The data directory for bookshelf, the component storing cookbook content is 
`/var/opt/chef-server/bookshelf/data/bookshelf/`. The filenames correspond to 
md5 checksums of the corresponding cookbook content.

It isn't yet possible to browse using an s3 client, but I like the idea of 
such an enhancement.

+ seth