diff --git a/docs/experimental-features.md b/docs/experimental-features.md index 0496218151c..16cffb5351a 100644 --- a/docs/experimental-features.md +++ b/docs/experimental-features.md @@ -343,3 +343,25 @@ See [Plugin docs](./plugins.md) - [ ] Needs more testing - [ ] Make sure there are no unknown major problems + +## Directory Sharding / HAMT + +### In Version +0.4.8 + +### State +Experimental + +Allows to create directories with unlimited number of entries - currently +size of unixfs directories is limited by the maximum block size + +### Basic Usage: + +``` +ipfs config --json Experimental.ShardingEnabled true +``` + +### Road to being a real feature + +- [ ] Make sure that objects that don't have to be sharded aren't +- [ ] Generalize sharding and define a new layer between IPLD and IPFS