Warning: This tool may corrupt your chainstate database. If it does, you will need to run bitcoind -reindex-chainstate the next time you run bitcoin, and this usually takes around a day to complete. It's not a terrible problem, but it can be annoying. I'm not entirely sure why it happens, so if you can figure out how to fix it, that would be cool.
Eek
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But could work well with LVM (or ZFS, etc) snapshots - create fs snapshot, run tool, get results, destroy snapshot.
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Stop the node, and make a backup of the .bitcoin files first, it will be quicker to restore than reindex and redownload everything again.
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Still good have this disclaimer.
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Definitely good to make folks aware
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