Umbrel: Enable pruning when drive size is < 450GB
mayankchhabra
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Probably better to drop this now because of electrum
nolim1t
on 2 Oct 2020
Good idea
mayankchhabra
on 2 Oct 2020
@mayankchhabra was this ever added? Want to give Umbrel a try but don't have enough storage.
Also having non-pruned nodes and recommending 1TB storage could potentially mean a massive crash at some point for big portion of users as chain grows.
pavlenex
on 22 Dec 2020
Hey @pavlenex, pruning wasn't added and for now ~600GB of free space is the minimum requirement.
We didn't implement pruning because of Electrum server (electrs), which doesn't work against a pruned node. Completely agree with you that 1TB storage at some point wouldn't be enough, and we can't expect users to keep migrating to larger drives as they run out of space.
But before that happens, we'll revisit this issue and try to support pruning in a way that doesn't break other features (such as by requesting blocks on-demand from other nodes and verifying their hashes against own node).
mayankchhabra
on 22 Dec 2020
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Hey @pavlenex, pruning wasn't added and for now ~600GB of free space is the minimum requirement.
We didn't implement pruning because of Electrum server (electrs), which doesn't work against a pruned node. Completely agree with you that 1TB storage at some point wouldn't be enough, and we can't expect users to keep migrating to larger drives as they run out of space.
But before that happens, we'll revisit this issue and try to support pruning in a way that doesn't break other features (such as by requesting blocks on-demand from other nodes and verifying their hashes against own node).