Put uploads in a volume so it stays after restart

[OmarIthawi]

This issue has come up often for our designer in which the upload on the LMS are lost after a container restart.

Steps to Reproduce

• Go to your profile
• Upload a profile image
• Make sure it shows up in $ docker exec -it edx.devstack.lms ls -v /edx/var/edxapp/{media,uploads}
• Take the devstack down: $ make down
• Run the devstack again: $ make dev.up
• Again, run $ docker exec -it edx.devstack.lms ls -v /edx/var/edxapp/{media,uploads}
• Go to your profile again

Expected

• The image profile to stay

Actual

• The file gets lost after a docker restart

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[OmarIthawi]

@jmbowman fyi.

[jmbowman]

Should either of these be also listed in docker-compose-watchers.yml? Not super familiar with what normally gets put here and if it should be processed by the static asset watchers.

[OmarIthawi]

I don't think so @jmbowman. To the best of my knowledge, uploads has nothing to do with static files and watchers.

But I could go ahead and it just in case. What do you think?

[jmbowman]

Let's leave it this way for now. If it turns out we need it for the watchers, I'm sure that'll get noticed and fixed soon enough.

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[OmarIthawi]

Awesome! Thanks @jmbowman for the super fast triage!