The code currently assumes that once a block file is 'left', it and its corresponding rev file can be flushed, and won't be written to any further.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/e8e79958a7b2a0bf1b02adcce9f4d811eac37dfc/src/validation.cpp#L1742-L1743

(Flushing here additionally means to get rid of pre-allocated unused space.)

This is the case for the bl(oc)k files, but it turns out to not be the case for the rev files. During an IBD up to ~200k blocks, the following excerpt (one of several) was encountered (grepping out irrelevancy):
```
[...]
2020-01-07T14:19:09Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x7000000 in blk00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:13Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x8000000 in blk00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:14Z Pre-allocating up to position 0xf00000 in rev00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:16Z Leaving block file 13: CBlockFileInfo(blocks=1099, size=134068483, heights=183531...185655, time=2012-06-08...2012-06-22)
2020-01-07T14:19:16Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x1000000 in blk00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:17Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x100000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:20Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x1000000 in rev00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:20Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x2000000 in blk00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:24Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x1100000 in rev00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:26Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x3000000 in blk00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:27Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x1200000 in rev00013.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:30Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x200000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:33Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x300000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:35Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x400000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:37Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x500000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:39Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x600000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:42Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x700000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:43Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x4000000 in blk00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:45Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x800000 in rev00014.dat
2020-01-07T14:19:49Z Pre-allocating up to position 0x900000 in rev00014.dat
[...]
```

But the only time we flush (and truncate the files to their correct size) is when we leave a block, and we already left block 13 here, so the rev files above end up with pre-allocated space that is never used. This is related to #17827.

This seems to repeat itself for every file that ended up larger than expected in https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/17887#issuecomment-571591432. (Note: #17887 is not a fix for this issue. #17887 makes the impact much smaller by fixing a separate blow-up bug, but it does not address re-flushing re-opened rev files.)

if (pindexBestForkTip && ::ChainActive().Height() - pindexBestForkTip->nHeight >= 72)
        pindexBestForkTip = nullptr;
    if (pindexBestForkTip || (pindexBestInvalid && pindexBestInvalid->nChainWork > ::ChainActive().Tip()->nChainWork + (GetBlockProof(*::ChainActive().Tip()) * 6)))
    {
        if (!GetfLargeWorkForkFound() && pindexBestForkBase)
        {
            std::string warning = std::string("'Warning: Large-work fork detected, forking after block ") +
                pindexBestForkBase->phashBlock->ToString() + std::string("'");
            AlertNotify(warning);
        }
        if (pindexBestForkTip && pindexBestForkBase)
        {
            LogPrintf("%s: Warning: Large valid fork found\n  forking the chain at height %d (%s)\n  lasting to height %d (%s).\nChain state database corruption likely.\n", __func__,
                   pindexBestForkBase->nHeight, pindexBestForkBase->phashBlock->ToString(),
                   pindexBestForkTip->nHeight, pindexBestForkTip->phashBlock->ToString());
            SetfLargeWorkForkFound(true);
        }
        else
        {
            LogPrintf("%s: Warning: Found invalid chain at least ~6 blocks longer than our best chain.\nChain state database corruption likely.\n", __func__);
            SetfLargeWorkInvalidChainFound(true);
        }
    }
    else
    {
        SetfLargeWorkForkFound(false);
        SetfLargeWorkInvalidChainFound(false);
    }
}
static void CheckForkWarningConditionsOnNewFork(CBlockIndex* pindexNewForkTip) EXCLUSIVE_LOCKS_REQUIRED(cs_main)