go/storage: Refactor checkpointing interface #2659
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Part of #2479
Previously the way storage checkpoints were implemented had several
drawbacks, namely:
Since the checkpoint only streamed key/value pairs this prevented
correct tree reconstruction as tree nodes also include a Round field
which specifies the round at which a given tree node was created.
While old checkpoints were streamed in chunks and thus could be
resumed or streamed in parallel from multiple nodes, there was no
support for verifying the integrity of a single chunk.
This change introduces an explicit checkpointing mechanism with a simple
file-based backend reference implementation. The same mechanism could
also be used in the future with Tendermint's app state sync proposal.
NOTE: This adds support for generating checkpoints but not for syncing them.