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Update IPAM documentation.
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marccarre committed Feb 9, 2017
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- it will continue to ask for space until it receives some, or its
copy of the ring tells it all peers are full in that subnet.

### Data persistence

Key IPAM data is saved to disk, in a [BoltDB](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt)
file, stored within a [data volume container](https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/containers/dockervolumes/#creating-and-mounting-a-data-volume-container)
named `weavedb`.

This file contains:

* the division of the IP allocation range amongst peers, and
* allocation of addresses to containers on the local peer,

so that it is immediately available when the peer restarts.

### Claiming an address

If a Weave process is restarted, in most cases it will hear from
another peer which ranges it used to own, but it needs to know which
individual IP addresses are assigned to containers in order to avoid
giving the same address out in subsequent allocation requests. The
weave script invokes the `claim` command in `populate_ipam` to do
this.
If a Weave process is restarted,

- if `weavedb` is present, then it loads persisted IPAM data from there, as
described, in the previous section;
- else, it learns from other peers which ranges it used to own.
The `weave` script then invokes the `claim` command via the `ipam_reclaim`
function in order to know which individual IP addresses are assigned to
containers, and therefore avoid giving the same address out in subsequent
allocation requests.

When the Allocator is told to claim an address, there are four
possibilities:
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