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reduce garbage in blockstore #4406

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reduce garbage in blockstore #4406

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Avoid writing messages/blocks that may not be useful to the blockstore until we've validated them.

These can't possibly be valid messages, so we should just drop the block.
Instead of using an in-memory datastore and dealing with the overhead of
computing datastore keys, creating new blocks, etc, use an in-memory blockstore.
This blockstore lets us write to a temporary scratch location where blocks older
than the specified cache time are automatically cleared.
If they end up validating, we'll write them back to the underlying blockstore.
Otherwise, there's no reason to keep them.
// We use a temporary bstore here to avoid writing intermediate pieces
// into the blockstore.
blockstore := bstore.NewTemporary()
cst := cbor.NewCborStore(blockstore)
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Can the comments on 326-328 be removed? I believe this addresses them.

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I think they're still valid? That is, at this point we know we have a "sane" block, but it may not be otherwise valid.

But I don't know the original intention of that comment.

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Nice catch, should hopefully reduce the chainstore growth a bit

@magik6k magik6k merged commit 7ccb2aa into master Oct 14, 2020
@magik6k magik6k deleted the steb/reduce-garbage branch October 14, 2020 23:49
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