Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-4.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SffgC-0006nn-0q for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:11:48 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from vps7135.xlshosting.net ([178.18.90.41]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) id 1SffgB-0002zV-1V for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:11:47 +0000 Received: by vps7135.xlshosting.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0480244B10; Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:11:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:11:39 +0200 From: Pieter Wuille To: grarpamp Message-ID: <20120615231138.GA30505@vps7135.xlshosting.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://sipa.ulyssis.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: 1.2 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (pieter.wuille[at]gmail.com) 0.0 DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED No valid author signature, adsp_override is CUSTOM_MED -0.0 T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD Envelope sender domain matches handover relay domain 1.2 NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED ADSP custom_med hit, and not from a mailing list X-Headers-End: 1SffgB-0002zV-1V Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Manual file cleanup on exit, safe? [coredump backtrace] X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 23:11:48 -0000 On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 04:58:55PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > When bitcoind exits cleanly, it does not seem safe for the blockchain > to clean up the following hierarchy with rm -r ? Use -detachdb if you want to detach the blockchain database files from the database environment at exit. This was turned off by default in 0.6.0 to speed up the shutdown process very significantly, and few people have a need to manually fiddle with their blockchain database files. -- Pieter