[Draft] services/horizon: Cache files downloaded from HAs #5165
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What
Add an on-disk cache for the ingestion state machine to avoid repeated downloads from the history archives.
Why
This avoids unnecessary retries.
Known limitations
The cache causes errors when:
We need to decide on the appropriate cache size (perhaps making it controllable by a parameter? but I think that's overkill).
We should clean the cache if possible on a clean shutdown.