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If you use spinning rust for the initial sync you’ll most likely never catch up. If you have craploads of RAM to allocate to ARC, you may actually be able to d
by 3np 5y ago
If you use spinning rust for the initial sync you’ll most likely never catch up.
If you have craploads of RAM to allocate to ARC, you may actually be able to do it on ZFS I guess.
- jlokier 5y agoI think this may no longer be true with the Snap sync protocol (introduced in Geth this year). Even though transactions are very random access, Snap iterates sequentially over storage to transfer it all from one node to another, which is HDD friendly. However I'm not confident it will be able to stay in sync afterwards using HDD.
- yokem55 5y agoThe new fork of geth, called erigon (formerly turbogeth) supposedly can do a full archive sync on a spinning disk drive and is much more space efficient.