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Added sharding to experimental features #4569

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- [ ] 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
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IIRC this was a problem:

  • Make sure that objects that don't have to be sharded aren't

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Also, we kind of wanted to generalize this and define a new layer between IPLD and IPFS with sharding.


- [ ] Make sure that objects that don't have to be sharded aren't
- [ ] Generalize sharding and define a new layer between IPLD and IPFS