My Ethereum node was fast synced one year ago and then ran for 10 months, before that computer was shut down.
I have turned on that computer and I want to continue catching up, but Geth keeps switching from fast sync to full sync. I think that it merely checks whether it had begun full syncing at the end of the last fast sync, and now I have a year to catch up to with full sync that I don't want, because it is too slow.
How do I force Geth to use fast sync? Without starting over from scratch
the command I am using is
geth --syncmode "fast" --cache=8192 --http --http.addr 127.0.0.1 --http.port "8545" --maxpeers=50
but this is what the output says
WARN [01-09|04:35:31.697] Switch sync mode from fast sync to full sync
and although that seems like it would be merely an informative suggestion, it is clear that it is doing a full sync from 10 months ago and that this will take a long time
Version: 1.9.24
Git Commit: 889f5645b57dde5b5d4cccf1561bdb449293d2d8
Git Commit Date: 20210108
Architecture: amd64
Go Version: go1.15.6
Operating System: linux```