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Power Failure During IBD - Verifying Data Integrity
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keystroke
on 12/05/2023, 18:54:01 UTC
⭐ Merited by LoyceV (4) ,ETFbitcoin (3)
I recently experienced a power failure while performing the Initial Block Download (IBD) onto a Samsung T7 solid state drive, which was partitioned for ext4 and mounted with the default data=ordered journaling option. My node was running with the following parameters: -txindex=1 -blockfilterindex=1 peerblockfilters=1.

Thankfully, the node started back up without any issues. However, I am concerned about the possibility of data corruption (blocks, indexes, etc.) due to the power failure. To be on the safe side, I've decided to restart the node with -checkblocks=0 -checklevel=3 options to verify the integrity of the stored data.

Is this enough to ensure that no data has been corrupted due to the power failure? Or should I consider taking additional steps to verify the integrity of my node data?

Thank you in advance for your help!