Quote from: Pieter Wuille on January 13, 2013, 06:53:55 PM

Quote from: smtp on January 13, 2013, 06:22:40 PM

I simply should concatenate my current block chain (3 files) into 1 huge file (almost 4.9 GB), name this "bootstrap.dat" and 0.7.* will load this without signature-checking into the bitcoin-client if I start it (and of course build a new blkindex.dat)?

It will load it, but only the first 193000 blocks will be done without signature checking.

Also, I think 0.7.x has a bug where no more than 2G of bootstrap.dat is loaded anyway. You can use -loadblock=file1 -loadblock=file2, ... though.

All this I knew -- I thought that I had misunderstood that this 193000 blocks limit was hardcoded into the client. :-/

I did it with -loadblock... already, thus my personal annoying real-time expierence.
Thx, anyway, then I can stop my try now -- I just have started 0.7.1 with this 4.9 GB bootstrap.dat and looked forward whether all will succeed.
193000 blocks looks about as 216000 blocks, but the sad truth is: only about 50 % of the transactions and this is what matters. :-/

smtp