Just deployed a boilerplate Web Role in Azure Cloud service. Upon launching, it seems the default current dir is "d:\windows\system32\inetsrv" and home is "F:\sitesroot\0"
It seems I have limited write permissions, no delete permissions.
2 questions:
How much storage is there on this server under F:\sitesroot? Is it persistent?
How do I control the default permission/access of a web role?
You should be reading/writing to a LocalStorage resource. When you define a LocalStorage resource a folder is configured on the C: drive with appropriate size and permissions setup.
There is no persistent local storage for WebRoles. If you need something persistent then you should use Azure storage (blobs/tables) or something else like SQL Azure.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee758708.aspx for more information, and http://convective.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/local-storage-on-windows-azure/ for sample code.
