@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 ?

1. Are just using xz/zip/bzip/lzma or something else ?

2. Cursious about the auto-scaling as well - so you use something like ELB from AWS or a hardware (F5) ?

Thanks in advance.