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

Quote from: Pieter Wuille on January 13, 2013, 05:52:01 PM

But before the last checkpoint (=exactly what is stored in bootstrap.dat), signature checking is disabled anyway (and this hasn't changed in 0. Cool

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Do I feel victim to a misunderstanding or do you just have told me a trick?

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)?

smtp

You perhaps won't succeed with a file > 4GB. There were some limits with fseek or such as far as I remember.

Dia