This change introduces additional processes to manage snapshot uploading
for E2 snapshots:
## erigon snapshots upload
The `snapshots uploader` command starts a version of erigon customized
for uploading snapshot files to
a remote location.
It breaks the stage execution process after the senders stage and then
uses the snapshot stage to send
uploaded headers, bodies and (in the case of polygon) bor spans and
events to snapshot files. Because
this process avoids execution in run signifigantly faster than a
standard erigon configuration.
The uploader uses rclone to send seedable (100K or 500K blocks) to a
remote storage location specified
in the rclone config file.
The **uploader** is configured to minimize disk usage by doing the
following:
* It removes snapshots once they are loaded
* It aggressively prunes the database once entities are transferred to
snapshots
in addition to this it has the following performance related features:
* maximizes the workers allocated to snapshot processing to improve
throughput
* Can be started from scratch by downloading the latest snapshots from
the remote location to seed processing
## snapshots command
Is a stand alone command for managing remote snapshots it has the
following sub commands
* **cmp** - compare snapshots
* **copy** - copy snapshots
* **verify** - verify snapshots
* **manifest** - manage the manifest file in the root of remote snapshot
locations
* **torrent** - manage snapshot torrent files
"whitelisting" mechanism (list of files - stored in DB) - which
protecting us from downloading new files after upgrade/downgrade was
broken. And seems it became over-complicated with time.
I replacing it by 1 persistent flag inside downloader:
"prohibit_new_downloads.lock"
Erigon will turn downloader into this mode after
downloading/verification of first snapshots.
```
//Corner cases:
// - Erigon generated file X with hash H1. User upgraded Erigon. New version has preverified file X with hash H2. Must ignore H2 (don't send to Downloader)
// - Erigon "download once": means restart/upgrade/downgrade must not download files (and will be fast)
// - After "download once" - Erigon will produce and seed new files
```
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`downloader --seedbox` is never "prohibit new downloads"
This request implements the insertion of Bor ephemeral transactions into
snapshot indexes.
I does this by taking the block hash from the header index and passing
it to the transaction indexer to add an additional index entry per block
into the transaction hash -> block index.
The passed entries are currently contained in an in memory array which
is (32 * number of blocks / sprint size) bytes.
In addition to the functional code there is also an update to the
`dump_test.go` so that it runs `DumpBlocks` to exercise the indexing
code. To facilitate this the `InsertChain` method in `mock_sentry` has
been modified so that it can process >128 blocks.
The code in this request also includes additional bor/consensus code
with the following functions:
`CalculateSprint`
`CalculateSprintCount`
The first function is a modification of the code in erigon-lib so that
the sprints are numerically rather than lexically ordered. This code
should be migrated to erigon-lib and should have its sprint set
calculated once from its underlying map rather than this process being
repeated every calculation.
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Co-authored-by: Alex Sharp <alexsharp@Alexs-MacBook-Pro-2.local>
Co-authored-by: ledgerwatch <akhounov@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Enrique Jose Avila Asapche <eavilaasapche@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Giulio <giulio.rebuffo@gmail.com>
- breaks dependency from staged_sync to package with block_reader
implementation
- breaks dependency from snap_sync to package with block_reader
implementation
- breaks dependency from mining to txpool implementation
