I only have BLK*.dat and is looking to bootstrap a full node.
What is quicker?
bitcoind -dbcache=16000 -reindex? (the blk*.dat is already copied to datadir of local HDD.)
bitcoind -dbcache=16000 -loadblock? (the blk*.dat is still on the external HDD.)
Bootstrapping from only BLK*.dat which is quicker?
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Posted by 1bch1musd
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reindex is gonna be way faster since you’re reading from local storage instead of external hdd, plus it’s optimized for exactly this scenario
the external drive bottleneck will kill you with loadblock, especially if it’s usb 2.0 or something slow