From 08540d567bb295f0bf4353e766a6506ae1f1a07d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pieter Wuille Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:53:05 +0100 Subject: Added information about used data files --- doc/files.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/files.txt (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/files.txt b/doc/files.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5d4cdabf8d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/files.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Used in 0.8.0: +* wallet.dat: personal wallet (BDB) with keys and transactions +* peers.dat: peer IP address database (custom format); since 0.7.0 +* blocks/blk000??.dat: block data (custom, 128 MiB per file); since 0.8.0 +* blocks/rev000??.dat; block undo data (custom); since 0.8.0 (format changed since pre-0.8) +* blocks/index/*; block index (LevelDB); since 0.8.0 +* chainstate/*; block chain state database (LevelDB); since 0.8.0 +* database/*: BDB database environment; only used for wallet since 0.8.0 + +Only used in pre-0.8.0: +* blktree/*; block chain index (LevelDB); since pre-0.8, replaced by blocks/index/* in 0.8.0 +* coins/*; unspent transaction output database (LevelDB); since pre-0.8, replaced by chainstate/* in 0.8.0 + +Only used before 0.8.0: +* blkindex.dat: block chain index database (BDB); replaced by {chainstate/*,blocks/index/*,blocks/rev000??.dat} in 0.8.0 +* blk000?.dat: block data (custom, 2 GiB per file); replaced by blocks/blk000??.dat in 0.8.0 + +Only used before 0.7.0: +* addr.dat: peer IP address database (BDB); replaced by peers.dat in 0.7.0 -- cgit v1.2.3