[spam][personal][crazy] Trying to Build Bitcoin from Source

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Fri Nov 5 21:18:50 PDT 2021


On 11/5/21, Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1858 is there some magical thing that gives you infinite diskspace?
> there's some new tool that i vaguely recall might do something like

Use the latest ZFS, turn zstd compression on poolwide,
rewrite the datasets. It's the closest to magical.

> it might not work for a blockchain.

At least 9% less fully indexed, 50G freed.

If you want to save more space, you have to hack
the different BTC forks to refer back to the BTC
chain for the parts in common prior to the forks.
Buying disk is easier.

> system's pretty taxed now.

Use dbcache, dbbatchsize, etc.

> 1930 a hard thing that's remaining is software to archive files on
> bitcoinsv.

You should be able to scan through all tx writing each
attachment into a filename <txid>-<content_hash>


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