@justinw - read your other comments. Keep up the good work.
I have questions / doubts:
This makes it possible for us to autoscale steemd instances on-demand.
ie you are compressing the block_log files and decompressing for auto-scalng ?
Are just using xz/zip/bzip/lzma or something else ?
Cursious about the auto-scaling as well - so you use something like ELB from AWS or a hardware (F5) ?
Thanks in advance.