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ac94141af0c16161afa68de1c3720f254ae4e12c validation: delay flushing undo files in syncing node case (Karl-Johan Alm) Pull request description: Fixes #17890. Replaces #17892. Data files (`{blk|rev}<number>.dat`) pre-allocate space as they are written, and then trims down to the final size once they move on to the next sequence ("finalized flush"). The code currently assumes (incorrectly) that blk and rev files finish at the same time, but because blk files are written as blocks come in, and rev files are written in block height order, rev files end up being written to for awhile after moving on to the next block file, resulting in pre-allocation and waste of up to 1 MB of space per rev file. The exact point at which rev file writing finishes is the highest height block found inside the corresponding block file, which is already available in the CBlockFileInfo vector. This PR moves finalized flushing of undo files to to directly after the undo data for the previous block file has been written. There is a branch with annotation that demonstrates how this is handling flushing here: https://github.com/kallewoof/bitcoin/tree/200124-rev-files-annotated ACKs for top commit: vasild: ACK ac94141af (no changes in the code since ed34e00da). fjahr: Code review re-ACK ac94141af0c16161afa68de1c3720f254ae4e12c jonatack: Code review ACK ac94141af0c16 Tree-SHA512: 1d4e3b3d1d99bd7ebe7a2f632b1231146dd4f9f993c54db3a4090d9c086d95d2e4c327fd936066392b3afc6277b8f3a908d5c5993d4c8e49f72b92a417716dd2
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