ripatel-fd

Consider this an informal guide to reading the Solana snapshot format. This guide is written for Solana Labs versions v1.14 through v1.17.

You are probably reading this because you want to read the accounts in a snapshot without going through the pain of interfacing with the Solana Labs codebase.

Terminology

We assume general familiarity with the Solana ledger.

dcoles

import ctypes
import sys
import os
import errno

FUNC = ctypes.CFUNCTYPE(None)

PROT_NONE = 0
PROT_READ = 1
PROT_WRITE = 2