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* [pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup] docs: Fix typo for chunk directory naming and rewording
@ 2024-10-11  7:18 Christian Ebner
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From: Christian Ebner @ 2024-10-11  7:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
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The chunks subdirectories are only using the chunk's 2 byte checksum
prefix given in hex notation.

Also, clarify that chunks are grouped into subdirectories.

Reported in the community forum:
https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/155751/

Signed-off-by: Christian Ebner <c.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
 docs/technical-overview.rst | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/technical-overview.rst b/docs/technical-overview.rst
index a8b1c7268..f79deff38 100644
--- a/docs/technical-overview.rst
+++ b/docs/technical-overview.rst
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@ The chunks of a datastore are found in
 
  <datastore-root>/.chunks/
 
-This chunk directory is further subdivided by the first four bytes of the
-chunk's checksum, so a chunk with the checksum
+This chunk directory is further subdivided into directories grouping chunks by
+their checksums 2 byte prefix (given as 4 hexadecimal digits), so a chunk with
+the checksum
 
  a342e8151cbf439ce65f3df696b54c67a114982cc0aa751f2852c2f7acc19a8b
 
-- 
2.39.5



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