Alfredo Garcia

Thanks for the report. Can you show exactly what you are using in the `cache_dir` field of the config ? We maybe need to use https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fs/fn.canonicalize.html on top of the...

I can't reproduce it. Here is what i tried. created a link with: ``` mkdir testing ln -s /media/alfredo/stuff/chain/zebra /home/alfredo/zebra/issue8617/testing/ ``` config: ``` cache_dir = "/home/alfredo/zebra/issue8617/testing/zebra" ``` zebrad starts normally:...

It seems https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/8689 and https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/issues/8681 are part of this major issue that could include more stuff as the ZIP is currently a draft PR: https://github.com/zcash/zips/pull/878