Accessing /data folder of persistent storage

John6666
Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:19:45 +0000

For that purpose, Dataset Storage seems to be the recommended option nowadays.

Persistent Storage is in a rather unclear state…

Spaces Persistent Storage Upgrade Not Accessible Spaces

Hi @Minimartzz There’s a similar discussion here. Persistent storage isn’t available for new Spaces, but you can use Dataset Storage instead.

Urgent: Persistent storage (/data) suddenly unavailable — vote DB lost after restart (channelcorp/KO-TTS-Arena) Spaces

Hi Hugging Face team and community, We’re experiencing a critical production incident on our Space where Persistent Storage (/data) suddenly became unavailable, and as a result our SQLite vote database appears to be lost. This Space is a Korean TTS Arena where users vote and compare models, so the vote history is essentially community-built data accumulated over time. Losing it is extremely serious for us. Space https://huggingface.co/spaces/channelcorp/KO-TTS-Arena What changed? As far as …