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> It's 20GB. Many modern games are larger than that. It's large enough that it can't be stored in a single file on many good filesystems without extra fiddling
by mpyne 12y ago
> It's 20GB. Many modern games are larger than that.
It's large enough that it can't be stored in a single file on many good filesystems without extra fiddling. While "huge" is obviously a subjective measure, this would certainly seem to apply.
Either way, many modern games come in well under 20GB, so I'm not sure that's the best criterion to use. And storage isn't the problem, as much as the bandwidth requirements to bootstrap a bitcoin client.
And all of these problems will only grow larger over time.
- jevinskie 12y agoWhat good filesystem can't support > 4GB files?
- michaelt 12y agoFAT32, the only file system which can be read and written from OS X, Windows and Linux without third party software and warnings you'll lose all your data.
- dustcoin 12y agoThe reference client does not store the blockchain as a giant file and instead splits the data into 128MB chunks on disk.