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kona-node is an L2 consensus client, so it stores almost nothing on disk!
Anything stored on disk is configurable, and can be disabled.
As a rollup node, it always sends L2 blocks over to the execution client (op-reth or op-geth) for execution. That way, chain state is entirely handled by the execution client. In this way, the kona-node is incredibly lightweight and can be run on a wide range of hardware. That said, a stable and dependable internet connection is critical for the peer-to-peer (P2P) part of the node. The kona-node relies on P2P communication to sync the unsafe chain. If the connection is unstable, the node may struggle to keep up, and could be banned by its peers for being too slow.