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authorMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2021-07-28 20:00:23 +0200
committerMarcoFalke <falke.marco@gmail.com>2021-07-30 11:21:51 +0200
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Ignore banlist.dat
This also allows to remove the "dirty" argument, which can now be deduced from the return value of Read().
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@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ Subdirectory | File(s) | Description
`indexes/coinstats/db/` | LevelDB database | Coinstats index; *optional*, used if `-coinstatsindex=1`
`wallets/` | | [Contains wallets](#multi-wallet-environment); can be specified by `-walletdir` option; if `wallets/` subdirectory does not exist, wallets reside in the [data directory](#data-directory-location)
`./` | `anchors.dat` | Anchor IP address database, created on shutdown and deleted at startup. Anchors are last known outgoing block-relay-only peers that are tried to re-connect to on startup
-`./` | `banlist.dat` | Stores the addresses/subnets of banned nodes (deprecated). `bitcoind` or `bitcoin-qt` no longer save the banlist to this file, but read it on startup if `banlist.json` is not present.
`./` | `banlist.json` | Stores the addresses/subnets of banned nodes.
`./` | `bitcoin.conf` | User-defined [configuration settings](bitcoin-conf.md) for `bitcoind` or `bitcoin-qt`. File is not written to by the software and must be created manually. Path can be specified by `-conf` option
`./` | `bitcoind.pid` | Stores the process ID (PID) of `bitcoind` or `bitcoin-qt` while running; created at start and deleted on shutdown; can be specified by `-pid` option
@@ -114,6 +113,7 @@ These subdirectories and files are no longer used by Bitcoin Core:
Path | Description | Repository notes
---------------|-------------|-----------------
+`banlist.dat` | Stores the addresses/subnets of banned nodes; superseded by `banlist.json` in 22.0 and completely ignored in 23.0 | [PR #20966](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/20966), [PR #22570](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/22570)
`blktree/` | Blockchain index; replaced by `blocks/index/` in [0.8.0](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-0.8.0.md#improvements) | [PR #2231](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2231), [`8fdc94cc`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8fdc94cc8f0341e96b1edb3a5b56811c0b20bd15)
`coins/` | Unspent transaction output database; replaced by `chainstate/` in 0.8.0 | [PR #2231](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2231), [`8fdc94cc`](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/8fdc94cc8f0341e96b1edb3a5b56811c0b20bd15)
`blkindex.dat` | Blockchain index BDB database; replaced by {`chainstate/`, `blocks/index/`, `blocks/revNNNNN.dat`<sup>[\[2\]](#note2)</sup>} in 0.8.0 | [PR #1677](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/1677)