Unable to start docker mongo image on windows

Question

When starting the image I get the following error:

 2019-02-27T17:09:41.095+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (17) [1551287381:95206][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists Raw: [1551287381:95206][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists 2019-02-27T17:09:41.108+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message unexpected file WiredTiger.wt found, renamed to WiredTiger.wt.6 2019-02-27T17:09:41.111+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (1) [1551287381:111166][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted Raw: [1551287381:111166][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted 2019-02-27T17:09:41.149+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (17) [1551287381:149030][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists Raw: [1551287381:149030][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists 2019-02-27T17:09:41.153+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message unexpected file WiredTiger.wt found, renamed to WiredTiger.wt.7 2019-02-27T17:09:41.156+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (1) [1551287381:156133][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted Raw: [1551287381:156133][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted 2019-02-27T17:09:41.177+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (17) [1551287381:177375][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists Raw: [1551287381:177375][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: File exists 2019-02-27T17:09:41.192+0000 I STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger message unexpected file WiredTiger.wt found, renamed to WiredTiger.wt.8 2019-02-27T17:09:41.194+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (1) [1551287381:194762][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted Raw: [1551287381:194762][1:0x7fae36fc4a40], connection: __posix_open_file, 715: /data/db/WiredTiger.wt: handle-open: open: Operation not permitted 2019-02-27T17:09:41.200+0000 W STORAGE  [initandlisten] Failed to start up WiredTiger under any compatibility version. 2019-02-27T17:09:41.200+0000 F STORAGE  [initandlisten] Reason: 1: Operation not permitted 2019-02-27T17:09:41.201+0000 F -        [initandlisten] Fatal Assertion 28595 at src/mongo/db/storage/wiredtiger/wiredtiger_kv_engine.cpp 704 

The .env folder value is

MONGO_SAVE_PATH=./database/db 

The DB docker file:

FROM mongo:latest VOLUME ["/data/db"] WORKDIR /data EXPOSE 27017 CMD ["mongod"] 

The docker-compose.yml DB container

services:   my-mongo-db:   build: ./database   ports:    - 32815:27017   volumes: - ./database/db:/data/db 

I'm not sure how to fix this. However, on linux and Mac this issue doesn't appear.

Answer 1

WARNING (Windows & OS X): The default Docker setup on Windows and OS X uses a VirtualBox VM to host the Docker daemon. Unfortunately, the mechanism VirtualBox uses to share folders between the host system and the Docker container is not compatible with the memory mapped files used by MongoDB (see vbox bug, docs.mongodb.org and related jira.mongodb.org bug). This means that it is not possible to run a MongoDB container with the data directory mapped to the host.

Answer from docker mongo GitHub

Workaround to persist data:

docker volume create --name=mongodata docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -v mongodata:/data/db --name=mymongo mongodb:3.3 

More info here

Answer 2

If you are using docker-compose then following is the way replicate the answer above.

services:   mongodb_container:     ...     volumes:       - mongodata:/data/db volumes:   mongodata: 

Please note that the sample above indicates only needed parts of the yml file for the mongodb storage.