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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-03-04 20:38:53 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>2015-03-04 20:38:53 -0400
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+## end-user view
+
+What the end user sees is a directory, with a .git subdirectory,
+and 10 thousand little files (actually, they're broken symlinks, on
+Linux/OSX). Over time, some of the symlinks start filling in with
+"random" content from the IA.
+
+The user can look at that content, or even delete files they don't want to
+host.
+
+The user can control how much total disk space the directory takes up.
+
## sharding to scale
The IA contains some 24 million Items.