rewite state marker at startup (#477)

* rewrite state_marker at startup

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7a4aaeac3..168f83cda 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
   - disabled by default, enable with `--cache-reference-cache-enabled`
 - Changed: The default port for zenserver has been changed from 1337 to 8558
 - Bugfix: GC logging now correctly reports used/free disk space in log message
+- Improvement: Rewrite the state_marker file at startup to make sure we have write access to the data directory
 - Improvement: Faster reading of project store oplogs
 - Improvement: Faster collection of referenced CId content in project store
 - Improvement: Also reject bad bucket GET operations to prevent the buckets from being created on disk
diff --git a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
index b1e661973..9d51a581e 100644
--- a/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
+++ b/src/zenserver/zenserver.cpp
@@ -396,12 +396,10 @@ ZenServer::InitializeState(const ZenServerOptions& ServerOptions)
 		WriteFile(ManifestPath, m_RootManifest.GetBuffer().AsIoBuffer());
 	}
 	{
-		std::filesystem::path StateMarkerPath = m_DataRoot / "state_marker";
-		if (!std::filesystem::is_regular_file(StateMarkerPath))
-		{
-			static const std::string_view StateMarkerContent = "deleting this file will cause " ZEN_APP_NAME " to exit"sv;
-			WriteFile(StateMarkerPath, IoBuffer(IoBuffer::Wrap, StateMarkerContent.data(), StateMarkerContent.size()));
-		}
+		std::filesystem::path		  StateMarkerPath	 = m_DataRoot / "state_marker";
+		static const std::string_view StateMarkerContent = "deleting this file will cause " ZEN_APP_NAME " to exit"sv;
+		WriteFile(StateMarkerPath, IoBuffer(IoBuffer::Wrap, StateMarkerContent.data(), StateMarkerContent.size()));
+
 		EnqueueStateMarkerTimer();
 	}
 }