* Implement hardcoded sync

* Fix concerns

* Remove artifact

* Fix cli tests

* Fix compilation

* Update hardcoded sync block

* Don't use any data fetch for the light service

* ethcore test::helpers cleanup

* ethcore-service

* Extract the hard dependency on rocksdb from the light client

* Remove TODO

* kvdb-rocksdb: update to RocksDB 5.8.8

* kvdb-rocksdb: tune RocksDB options

* Switch to level-style compaction
* Increase default block size (16K), and use bigger blocks for HDDs (64K)
* Increase default file size base (64MB SSDs, 256MB HDDs)
* Create a single block cache shared across all column families
* Tune compaction settings using RocksDB helper functions, taking into account
  memory budget spread across all columns
* Configure backgrounds jobs based on the number of CPUs
* Set some default recommended settings

* ethcore: remove unused config blockchain.db_cache_size

* parity: increase default value for db_cache_size

* kvdb-rocksdb: enable compression on all levels

* kvdb-rocksdb: set global db_write_bufer_size

* kvdb-rocksdb: reduce db_write_bufer_size to force earlier flushing

* kvdb-rocksdb: use master branch for rust-rocksdb dependency

* separate migration from util and make its dependencies into libs:

* snappy
* kvdb
* error
* common

* renamed common -> macros

* util error does not depend on snappy module

* ethsync does not depend on util nor ethcore_error

* nibbleslice and nibblevec merged with patricia_trie crate

* removed unused dependencies from util

* util journaldb traits does not need to be public

* util_error

* fixed ethcore compile error

* ignore .swo files

* Update chain.rs

This reverts commit 899538ae.

Marek Kotewicz authored Sep 05, 2017 and Arkadiy Paronyan committed Sep 05, 2017

* fixed master

* Revert "Merge pull request #6370 from paritytech/light-poa"

This reverts commit 3c60f99d, reversing
changes made to b731ccea.

* Fix whitespace.

* Update copyright years/owner.

* Push release only for tags.