From 8fe501f7a44f38f2e412b0b69ad312ba9004687b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brooks Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:12:10 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Removes --halt-on-known-validators-accounts-hash-mismatch mentions (#2155) (cherry picked from commit 150f4d7103fb4d9d8bffde0bef2201fbb4ce7bf7) --- docs/src/operations/guides/validator-start.md | 20 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/src/operations/guides/validator-start.md b/docs/src/operations/guides/validator-start.md index d86c714be4e6a6..5907064105c794 100644 --- a/docs/src/operations/guides/validator-start.md +++ b/docs/src/operations/guides/validator-start.md @@ -260,17 +260,15 @@ Read more about [creating and managing a vote account](./vote-accounts.md). ## Known validators -If you know and respect other validator operators, you can specify this on the command line with the `--known-validator ` -argument to `agave-validator`. You can specify multiple ones by repeating the argument `--known-validator --known-validator `. -This has two effects, one is when the validator is booting with `--only-known-rpc`, it will only ask that set of -known nodes for downloading genesis and snapshot data. Another is that in combination with the `--halt-on-known-validators-accounts-hash-mismatch` option, -it will monitor the merkle root hash of the entire accounts state of other known nodes on gossip and if the hashes produce any mismatch, -the validator will halt the node to prevent the validator from voting or processing potentially incorrect state values. At the moment, the slot that -the validator publishes the hash on is tied to the snapshot interval. For the feature to be effective, all validators in the known -set should be set to the same snapshot interval value or multiples of the same. - -It is highly recommended you use these options to prevent malicious snapshot state download or -account state divergence. +If you know and respect other validator operators, you can specify this on the +command line with the `--known-validator ` argument to +`agave-validator`. You can specify multiple ones by repeating the argument +`--known-validator --known-validator `. This has the effect +that when the validator is booting with `--only-known-rpc`, it will only ask +that set of known nodes for downloading genesis and snapshot data. + +It is highly recommended you use this option to prevent malicious snapshot +state download. ## Connect Your Validator