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 # System Configuration
 
 The containers expect volumes to be mounted to be in `/srv/vol/<container name>/`
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+# Data
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+Host-specific configuration values for each container are stored in the container's respective `data` volume. Example config files are available in the `data` subdirectory for each image.
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