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allow exporting a number of recent chain state trees #3463

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Gets us closer to being able to 'sync' faster.

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lotus chain export --recent-stateroots=600 snapshot.car

wait like, 20 minutes, observe creation of 10gb file.

lotus daemon --snapshot=snapshot.car

Skip entire sync process!

snapshot := cctx.String("checkpoint")
if chainfile != "" || snapshot != "" {
if chainfile != "" && snapshot != "" {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot specify both 'snapshot' and 'import-chain'")
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return fmt.Errorf("cannot specify both 'snapshot' and 'import-chain'")
return fmt.Errorf("cannot specify both 'checkpoint' and 'import-chain'")

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  • checkpoint is a term that carries social consensus connotations.
  • i think snapshot is the right term for the exported state. (ie not all snapshots one may load should be thought of as checkpoints)
  • maybe the daemon load flag should be lotus daemon --load-state=snapshot.car or lotus daemon --load-snapshot=snapshot.car

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jbenet commented Sep 2, 2020

Thanks so much -- this will help so many people trying to sync the chain, specially from scratch 🙏

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@magik6k magik6k merged commit cfbbcd4 into master Sep 2, 2020
@magik6k magik6k deleted the feat/chain-state-export branch September 2, 2020 15:21
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