From b60d3080a9c9f7f795d94ebcc4383e252d27e6c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Slawomir Koszewski Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:58:01 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Wording fix in README.md. --- README.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fd2fffb..043cdc7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Prerequisites: the `vault` command installed on the workstation. ### Start a local Vault server -Vault dev mode keeps all data in memory, and a dev server cannot be restarted on existing file storage. The local server therefore runs in normal mode with file storage in the gitignored `vault-data` directory. +The local Vault server stores its data in files in the gitignored `vault-data` directory, so the CA survives restarts. The server starts sealed, is initialized once, and must be unsealed after every start. Create `vault.hcl`, replacing the path with the absolute path of the `vault-data` directory: