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Patches' Rocket Pool Guides

Preventing Node Reboots During Duties

Floating nvme Temperature in Grafana

Clearing 'Reboot Required' Metric after Reboots

Getting your Validator IDs in a Comma-Separated List for Beaconcha.in

Setting Up Mullvad VPN on your Node

Using your Eth1 Client with MetaMask in Chrome/Firefox

Configuring Beaconcha.in HW Monitoring for Nimbus Smartnode

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Geth Archive Node using Rocket Pool Docker Setup with lvmcache

Overview

The storage requirements for a geth archive node with a full sync from genesis are >10TB. The initial sync of the chain requires high IOPS that are usually provided by flash storage such as SSDs or NVMEs to process each block. As the archive node stores the entire state of the chain, the space requirements are drastically higher than a regularly-pruned full node.

For many users, having >10TB of SSD or NVME storage is not feasible. It is conceivable that the vast majority of state data is at rest on the node, and as such may benefit from a tiered cache approach where enough IOPS are provided for syncing, with a large HDD backend for ultimate data storage.

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