Howto/MrPlowDataMigration

Before 2021, MrPlow was suggested to run with ConfigOption/db_type of rocksdb. RocksDB has great performance and is generally fairly reliable, but it does occasionally break in various ways. For a node, that is not a big problem. You can always delete a node DB and then resync.

However, for things that need to be persisted, it isn't good enough. So there is a new DB type of 'atomic_file' which uses one file per record. For things like MrPlow that has a small number of records but the records are very important, that is a better fit.

This guide is for how to switch a mining pool from RocksDB to Atomic File while maintaining the share state.