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Added sharding to experimental features
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Not sure about "Road to being a real feature" and also would like to have clarified when this is being used. My understanding is that it'll shard automatically both when using the Files API and also when doing `ipfs add -r` but I'm not 100% about this.
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- [ ] Needs more testing
- [ ] Make sure there are no unknown major problems

## Sharding / HAMT

### In Version
0.4.8

### State
Experimental

Currently, when too many items are added into a unixfs directory, the object gets too large and you may experience issues. To pervent this problem, and generally make working really large directories more efficient, we have implemented a HAMT structure for unixfs. To enable this feature, run:

### Basic Usage:

```
ipfs config --json Experimental.ShardingEnabled true
```

### Road to being a real feature

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