From 6e7c729c5eef4e505c5b92fc088578757d10014a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sstent <stuart.stent@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:56:22 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: use standard Navidrome variables to isolate DB on LiteFS
 and metadata on host volume

---
 entrypoint.sh | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/entrypoint.sh b/entrypoint.sh
index 57cc659..d66e6e7 100644
--- a/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/entrypoint.sh
@@ -84,8 +84,15 @@ start_app() {
   # Ensure shared directories exist on persistent host volume
   mkdir -p /data/plugins /data/cache /data/backup
 
-  # Tell Navidrome to use the database directly from the LiteFS mount.
-  export ND_DBPATH="/litefs/navidrome.db?cache=shared&_busy_timeout=15000&_journal_mode=WAL&_foreign_keys=on"
+  # Officially supported variables to split the database from the metadata
+  export ND_DATAFOLDER="/litefs"
+  export ND_CACHEFOLDER="/data/cache"
+  export ND_BACKUP_PATH="/data/backup"
+  export ND_PLUGINS_FOLDER="/data/plugins"
+
+  # We can still pass the SQLite optimization flags via ND_DBPATH 
+  # but we'll use a relative path so it respects ND_DATAFOLDER
+  export ND_DBPATH="navidrome.db?cache=shared&_busy_timeout=15000&_journal_mode=WAL&_foreign_keys=on"
 
   /app/navidrome &
   NAVIDROME_PID=$!