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Implement a mechanism to detect if the device is using a rotating drive (hard disk drive) for chainstate storage #1465

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TheQuantumPhysicist opened this issue Jan 17, 2024 · 0 comments
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Since LMDB uses random access, hard disk drives can have tremendous performance problems.

This is how this can be done in Linux: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/908188/is-there-any-way-of-detecting-if-a-drive-is-a-ssd

We can do this for all operating systems. Every OS has its own way.

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