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# Non-Goals # Non-Goals
* Manifest generation speed * Manifest generation speed
* likely involves IPFS chunking, bittorrent chunking, and several different cryptographic hash functions over the entirety of each and every file
* Small manifest file size (within reason) * Small manifest file size (within reason)
* 10MiB files are "small" these days, given modern storage/bandwidth
* metadata size should not be used as an excuse to sacrifice utility (such as providing checksums over each chunk of a large file)
# Open Questions # Open Questions
* Should the manifest file include checksums of individual file chunks, or just for the whole assembled file? * Should the manifest file include checksums of individual file chunks, or just for the whole assembled file?