I noticed that during initial block download (IBD) the blocks can arrive out of order and will hence be stored out of order. I'm maintaining a few nodes and, although it is busy work, I'd like to store the blocks in the blk__.dat files sequentially. My main goal of this is to allow me to have a reproducible SHA checksum for the blk__.dat files. I do my IBD on fast machines and run the live nodes on slow machines. Doing this process on the "slow" machines would take forever, hence the need for checking files at rest with an off the shelf checksum utility.
My best guess to get this done would be:
- Perform an IBD on some node.
- Use the linearize script to create a
bootstrap.dat
file. - On a "fresh" install of 0.21.1, import bootstrap.dat using the
-loadblock
switch - Checksum all the
blk_____.dat
files I wish
Once done, any node created using step #3 should have matching checksums for "old" blk_____.dat
files. Obviously blk_____.dat
files created after the loadblock
event have the potential to have out of order blocks again.
Is this correct?
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