From 570580ad25720b381212dce422ece8384d4c54ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:38:53 -0400 Subject: add end-user view section --- doc/design/iabackup.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/design/iabackup.mdwn') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3