Need a way to restart the node so that the peerId and content addresses are not lost

[25x8]

There is no way to restart the node without generating a new peerId.
There is a need for such a mechanism, which is particularly relevant for private networks.

[tabcat]

Hello @25x8,

This is likely due to the PeerId and content being stored in memory by default (MemoryDatastore). Another datastore with a non-volatile storage backend can be passed an an option to the createHelia function.

[tabcat]

Some datastore implementations can be found here: https://github.com/ipfs/js-stores. Use one that is compatible with your environment.