Any problems seen during deserialization will throw an uncaught
exception, crashing the entire bitcoin process. Properly return an
error instead, so that we may at least log the error and gracefully
shutdown other portions of the app.
Satoshi's commits fdbf76d and c8ad9b8 (SVN import) removed the
DB_PRIVATE flag from the environment. In part, this enables processes
other than bitcoind to examine the active database environment.
However, this incurs a slight performance penalty versus working
entirely within application memory (DB_PRIVATE). Because bitcointools
and other direct-BDB-accessing tools are not used by the vast
majority of users, prefer to default with DB_PRIVATE with the option
of disabling it if needed via -privdb=0.
Cleans up and organizes several scattered functions and variables related to
the BDB env. Class CDBInit() existed to provide a
guaranteed-via-C++-destructor cleanup of the db environment.
A formal CDBEnv class provides all of this inside a single wrapper.
* This is safer than DB_TXN_NOSYNC, and does not appear to impact
performance.
* Applying this to the dbenv is necessary to avoid many fdatasync(2)
calls on db 5.x
* We carefully and thoroughly flush databases upon shutdown and
other important events already.
Add an option -detachdb (and entry in OptionDialog), without which no
lsn_reset is called on addr.dat and blkindex.dat. That means these
files cannot be moved to a new environment, but shutdown can be
significantly faster. The wallet file is always lsn_reset'ed.
-detachdb corresponds to the old behaviour, though it is off by
default now to speed up shutdowns.
This commit removes the dependency of serialize.h on PROTOCOL_VERSION,
and makes this parameter required instead of implicit. This is much saner,
as it makes the places where changing a version number can have an
influence obvious.
Since auto-remove-db-logs was enabled, each time a CTxDB was closed
outside of the initial download window, it causes a checkpoint + log
cleanup. This is overkill, so reduce the sync frequency to once per
minute at most.
Where possible, use boost::filesystem::path instead of std::string or
char* for filenames. This avoids a lot of manual string tinkering, in
favor of path::operator/.
GetDataDir is also reworked significantly, it now only keeps two cached
directory names (the network-specific data dir, and the root data dir),
which are decided through a parameter instead of pre-initialized global
variables.
Finally, remove the "upgrade from 0.1.5" case where a debug.log in the
current directory has to be removed.
When a 0.6 wallet with compressed pubkeys is created, it writes a
minversion record to prevent older clients from reading it. If the 0.5
loading it sees a key record before seeing the minversion record however,
it will fail with DB_CORRUPT instead of DB_TOO_NEW.
-checkblocks now takes a numeric argument: the number of blocks that must
be verified at the end of the chain. Default is 2500, and 0 means all
blocks.
-checklevel specifies how thorough the verification must be:
0: only check whether the block exists on disk
1: verify block validity (default)
2: verify transaction index validity
3: check transaction hashes
4: check whether spent txouts were spent within the main chain
5: check whether all prevouts are marked spent
6: check whether spent txouts were spent by a valid transaction that consumes them
Before 0.6 addrProxy was a CAddress, but netbase changed it to CService.
Retain compatibility by wrapping/unwrapping with a CAddress when saving
or loading.
This commit retains compatibility with 0.6.0rc1 (which wrote the setting
as a CService) by trying to parse twice.
Design goals:
* Only keep a limited number of addresses around, so that addr.dat does not grow without bound.
* Keep the address tables in-memory, and occasionally write the table to addr.dat.
* Make sure no (localized) attacker can fill the entire table with his nodes/addresses.
See comments in addrman.h for more detailed information.
