The total difficulty is the sum of all block difficulties from genesis
to a certain block. This value was used in PoW for deciding which chain
is heavier, and thus which chain to select. Since PoS has a different
fork selection algorithm, all blocks since the merge have a difficulty
of 0, and all total difficulties are the same for the past 2 years.
Whilst the TDs are mostly useless nowadays, there was never really a
reason to mess around removing them since they are so tiny. This
reasoning changes when we go down the path of pruned chain history. In
order to reconstruct any TD, we **must** retrieve all the headers from
chain head to genesis and then iterate all the difficulties to compute
the TD.
In a world where we completely prune past chain segments (bodies,
receipts, headers), it is not possible to reconstruct the TD at all. In
a world where we still keep chain headers and prune only the rest,
reconstructing it possible as long as we process (or download) the chain
forward from genesis, but trying to snap sync the head first and
backfill later hits the same issue, the TD becomes impossible to
calculate until genesis is backfilled.
All in all, the TD is a messy out-of-state, out-of-consensus computed
field that is overall useless nowadays, but code relying on it forces
the client into certain modes of operation and prevents other modes or
other optimizations. This PR completely nukes out the TD from the node.
It doesn't compute it, it doesn't operate on it, it's as if it didn't
even exist.
Caveats:
- Whenever we have APIs that return TD (devp2p handshake, tracer, etc.)
we return a TD of 0.
- For era files, we recompute the TD during export time (fairly quick)
to retain the format content.
- It is not possible to "verify" the merge point (i.e. with TD gone, TTD
is useless). Since we're not verifying PoW any more, just blindly trust
it, not verifying but blindly trusting the many year old merge point
seems just the same trust model.
- Our tests still need to be able to generate pre and post merge blocks,
so they need a new way to split the merge without TTD. The PR introduces
a settable ttdBlock field on the consensus object which is used by tests
as the block where originally the TTD happened. This is not needed for
live nodes, we never want to generate old blocks.
- One merge transition consensus test was disabled. With a
non-operational TD, testing how the client reacts to TTD is useless, it
cannot react.
Questions:
- Should we also drop total terminal difficulty from the genesis json?
It's a number we cannot react on any more, so maybe it would be cleaner
to get rid of even more concepts.
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Co-authored-by: Gary Rong <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
This change simplifies the logic for indexing transactions and enhances the UX when transaction is not found by returning more information to users.
Transaction indexing is now considered as a part of the initial sync, and `eth.syncing` will thus be `true` if transaction indexing is not yet finished. API consumers can use the syncing status to determine if the node is ready to serve users.
Original problem was caused by #28595, where we made it so that as soon as we start to sync, the root of the disk layer is deleted. That is not wrong per se, but another part of the code uses the "presence of the root" as an init-check for the pathdb. And, since the init-check now failed, the code tried to re-initialize it which failed since a sync was already ongoing.
The total impact being: after a state-sync has begun, if the node for some reason is is shut down, it will refuse to start up again, with the error message: `Fatal: Failed to register the Ethereum service: waiting for sync.`.
This change also modifies how `geth removedb` works, so that the user is prompted for two things: `state data` and `ancient chain`. The former includes both the chaindb aswell as any state history stored in ancients.
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Co-authored-by: Martin HS <martin@swende.se>
* all: implement path-based state scheme
* all: edits from review
* core/rawdb, trie/triedb/pathdb: review changes
* core, light, trie, eth, tests: reimplement pbss history
* core, trie/triedb/pathdb: track block number in state history
* trie/triedb/pathdb: add history documentation
* core, trie/triedb/pathdb: address comments from Peter's review
Important changes to list:
- Cache trie nodes by path in clean cache
- Remove root->id mappings when history is truncated
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fallback to disk if unexpect node in clean cache
* core/rawdb: fix tests
* trie/triedb/pathdb: rename metrics, change clean cache key
* trie/triedb: manage the clean cache inside of disk layer
* trie/triedb/pathdb: move journal function
* trie/triedb/path: fix tests
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix journal
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix history
* trie/triedb/pathdb: try to fix tests on windows
* core, trie: address comments
* trie/triedb/pathdb: fix test issues
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Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
* cmd/utils, node: switch to Pebble as the default db if none exists
* node: fall back to LevelDB on platforms not supporting Pebble
* core/rawdb, node: default to Pebble at the node level
* cmd/geth: fix some tests explicitly using leveldb
* ethdb/pebble: allow double closes, makes tests simpler
This change prints out more information about the problem, in the case where geth detects a gap between leveldb and ancients, so we can determine more exactly where the gap is (what the first missing is). Also prints out more metadata.
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Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
This PR ports a few changes from PBSS:
- Fix the snapshot generator waiter in case the generation is not even initialized
- Refactor db inspector for ancient store
Previously freezer has only been used for storing ancient chain data, while obviously it can be used more. This PR unties the chain data and freezer, keep the minimal freezer structure and move all other logic (like incrementally freezing block data) into a separate structure called ChainFreezer.
This PR also extends the database interface by adding a new ancient store function AncientDatadir which can return the root directory of ancient store. The ancient root directory can be used when we want to open some other ancient-stores (e.g. reverse diff freezer).
* cmd,core: add simple legacy receipt converter
core/rawdb: use forEach in migrate
core/rawdb: batch reads in forEach
core/rawdb: make forEach anonymous fn
cmd/geth: check for legacy receipts on node startup
fix err msg
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
fix log
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
fix some review comments
add warning to cmd
drop isLegacy fn from migrateTable params
add test for windows rename
test replacing in windows case
* minor fix
* sanity check for tail-deletion
* add log before moving files around
* speed-up hack for mainnet
* fix mainnet check, use networkid instead
* check mainnet genesis
* review fixes
* resume previous migration attempt
* core/rawdb: lint fix
Co-authored-by: Martin Holst Swende <martin@swende.se>
* eth/downloader: implement beacon sync
* eth/downloader: fix a crash if the beacon chain is reduced in length
* eth/downloader: fix beacon sync start/stop thrashing data race
* eth/downloader: use a non-nil pivot even in degenerate sync requests
* eth/downloader: don't touch internal state on beacon Head retrieval
* eth/downloader: fix spelling mistakes
* eth/downloader: fix some typos
* eth: integrate legacy/beacon sync switchover and UX
* eth: handle UX wise being stuck on post-merge TTD
* core, eth: integrate the beacon client with the beacon sync
* eth/catalyst: make some warning messages nicer
* eth/downloader: remove Ethereum 1&2 notions in favor of merge
* core/beacon, eth: clean up engine API returns a bit
* eth/downloader: add skeleton extension tests
* eth/catalyst: keep non-kiln spec, handle mining on ttd
* eth/downloader: add beacon header retrieval tests
* eth: fixed spelling, commented failing tests out
* eth/downloader: review fixes
* eth/downloader: drop peers failing to deliver beacon headers
* core/rawdb: track beacon sync data in db inspect
* eth: fix review concerns
* internal/web3ext: nit
Co-authored-by: Marius van der Wijden <m.vanderwijden@live.de>
* core/rawdb, cmd, ethdb, eth: implement freezer tail deletion
* core/rawdb: address comments from martin and sina
* core/rawdb: fixes cornercase in tail deletion
* core/rawdb: separate metadata into a standalone file
* core/rawdb: remove unused code
* core/rawdb: add random test
* core/rawdb: polish code
* core/rawdb: fsync meta file before manipulating the index
* core/rawdb: fix typo
* core/rawdb: address comments
* all: work for eth1/2 transtition
* consensus/beacon, eth: change beacon difficulty to 0
* eth: updates
* all: add terminalBlockDifficulty config, fix rebasing issues
* eth: implemented merge interop spec
* internal/ethapi: update to v1.0.0.alpha.2
This commit updates the code to the new spec, moving payloadId into
it's own object. It also fixes an issue with finalizing an empty blockhash.
It also properly sets the basefee
* all: sync polishes, other fixes + refactors
* core, eth: correct semantics for LeavePoW, EnterPoS
* core: fixed rebasing artifacts
* core: light: performance improvements
* core: use keyed field (f)
* core: eth: fix compilation issues + tests
* eth/catalyst: dbetter error codes
* all: move Merger to consensus/, remove reliance on it in bc
* all: renamed EnterPoS and LeavePoW to ReachTDD and FinalizePoS
* core: make mergelogs a function
* core: use InsertChain instead of InsertBlock
* les: drop merger from lightchain object
* consensus: add merger
* core: recoverAncestors in catalyst mode
* core: fix nitpick
* all: removed merger from beacon, use TTD, nitpicks
* consensus: eth: add docstring, removed unnecessary code duplication
* consensus/beacon: better comment
* all: easy to fix nitpicks by karalabe
* consensus/beacon: verify known headers to be sure
* core: comments
* core: eth: don't drop peers who advertise blocks, nitpicks
* core: never add beacon blocks to the future queue
* core: fixed nitpicks
* consensus/beacon: simplify IsTTDReached check
* consensus/beacon: correct IsTTDReached check
Co-authored-by: rjl493456442 <garyrong0905@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Péter Szilágyi <peterke@gmail.com>
This PR offers two more database sub commands for exporting and importing data.
Two exporters are implemented: preimage and snapshot data respectively.
The import command is generic, it can take any data export and import into leveldb.
The data format has a 'magic' for disambiguation, and a version field for future compatibility.
This PR adds a new accessor method to the freezer database. This new view offers a consistent interface, guaranteeing that all individual tables (headers, bodies etc) are all on the same number, and that this number is not changes (added/truncated) while the operation is performing.
This change is a rewrite of the freezer code.
When writing ancient chain data to the freezer, the previous version first encoded each
individual item to a temporary buffer, then wrote the buffer. For small item sizes (for
example, in the block hash freezer table), this strategy causes a lot of system calls for
writing tiny chunks of data. It also allocated a lot of temporary []byte buffers.
In the new version, we instead encode multiple items into a re-useable batch buffer, which
is then written to the file all at once. This avoids performing a system call for every
inserted item.
To make the internal batching work, the ancient database API had to be changed. While
integrating this new API in BlockChain.InsertReceiptChain, additional optimizations were
also added there.
Co-authored-by: Felix Lange <fjl@twurst.com>
* core/rawdb: implement sequential reads in freezer_table
* core/rawdb, ethdb: add sequential reader to db interface
* core/rawdb: lint nitpicks
* core/rawdb: fix some nitpicks
* core/rawdb: fix flaw with deferred reads not being performed
* core/rawdb: better documentation
This PR introduces:
- db.put to put a value into the database
- db.get to read a value from the database
- db.delete to delete a value from the database
- db.stats to check compaction info from the database
- db.compact to trigger a db compaction
It also moves inspectdb to db.inspect.
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Martin Holst Swende
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Justin Traglia
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Marius van der Wijden
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