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author | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-03-04 20:38:53 -0400 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name> | 2015-03-04 20:38:53 -0400 |
commit | 570580ad25720b381212dce422ece8384d4c54ea (patch) | |
tree | ad09cb7524622888a44c87c2dd2a798c83e9e18d /doc/design | |
parent | 1cacdb76e2bedb77b08820693d03b04e7bd01255 (diff) |
add end-user view section
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diff --git a/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn b/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn index 05fa24740..88e8b813b 100644 --- a/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn +++ b/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn @@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ This is a fairly detailed design proposal for using git-annex to build [[!toc ]] +## 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. |