While starting up a node (commit 6fc6325), it was apparently taking curiously long to load the ban list. RPC (in warmup mode) kept returning `Loading banlist...`. When I checked the log I happened upon the following:

```
2016-05-30 07:35:00 init message: Loading banlist...
2016-05-30 07:35:26 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000045614e4901f822a86e4015543acc6a68653cc9450f0f330 height=410222 version=0x20000000 log2_work=84.600836 tx=126776938 date='2016-05-04 18:0
1:59' progress=0.984518 cache=8.8MiB(5488tx)
...
2016-05-30 07:39:43 DNS seeding disabled
2016-05-30 07:39:43 opencon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 msghand thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 addcon thread start
2016-05-30 07:39:43 init message: Done loading
2016-05-30 07:39:43 net thread start
```

I think it's a matter of the init message not being updated for a new initialization phase after loading the banlist.

for (unsigned int i = 1; i < 10000; i++) {
            boost::filesystem::path source = GetDataDir() / strprintf("blk%04u.dat", i);
            if (!boost::filesystem::exists(source)) break;
            boost::filesystem::path dest = blocksDir / strprintf("blk%05u.dat", i-1);
            try {
                boost::filesystem::create_hard_link(source, dest);
                LogPrintf("Hardlinked %s -> %s\n", source.string(), dest.string());
                linked = true;
            } catch (const boost::filesystem::filesystem_error& e) {
                
                
                LogPrintf("Error hardlinking blk%04u.dat: %s\n", i, e.what());
                break;
            }
        }
        if (linked)
        {
            fReindex = true;
        }
    }
    
    int64_t nTotalCache = (GetArg("-dbcache", nDefaultDbCache) << 20);
    nTotalCache = std::max(nTotalCache, nMinDbCache << 20); 
    nTotalCache = std::min(nTotalCache, nMaxDbCache << 20); 
    int64_t nBlockTreeDBCache = nTotalCache / 8;
    nBlockTreeDBCache = std::min(nBlockTreeDBCache, (GetBoolArg("-txindex", DEFAULT_TXINDEX) ? nMaxBlockDBAndTxIndexCache : nMaxBlockDBCache) << 20);
    nTotalCache -= nBlockTreeDBCache;
    int64_t nCoinDBCache = std::min(nTotalCache / 2, (nTotalCache / 4) + (1 << 23)); 
    nCoinDBCache = std::min(nCoinDBCache, nMaxCoinsDBCache << 20); 
    nTotalCache -= nCoinDBCache;