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Improving Tezos Storage : Gitlab branch for testers

Authors: Fabrice Le Fessant
Date: 2019-02-04
Category: Blockchains
Tags: blockchains, ironmin, tezos

This article is the third post of a series of posts on improving Tezos storage. In our previous post, we announced the availability of a docker image for beta testers, wanting to test our storage and garbage collector. Today, we are glad to announce that we rebased our code on the latest version of ... (Read more)

Improving Tezos Storage : update and beta-testing

Authors: Fabrice Le Fessant
Date: 2019-01-30
Category: Blockchains
Tags: blockchains, tezos, ironmin

In a previous post, we presented some work that we did to improve the quantity of storage used by the Tezos node. Our post generated a lot of comments, in which upcoming features such as garbage collection and pruning were introduced. It also motivated us to keep working on this (hot) topic, and we ... (Read more)

Improving Tezos Storage

Authors: Fabrice Le Fessant
Date: 2019-01-15
Category: Blockchains
Tags: blockchains, tezos, ironmin

Running a Tezos node currently costs a lot of disk space, about 59 GB for the context database, the place where the node stores the states corresponding to every block in the blockchain, since the first one. Of course, this is going to decrease once garbage collection is integrated, i.e. removing ve... (Read more)