Re: RFC: Flat directory for notes, or fan-out? Both!

Thomas Rast [off-list ref] writes:

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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Or we could use an on-disk hashmap.  Oh, wait...

While reading this thread, I sure wondered ... why don't we use the
one on-disk fast access structure we already have: the index?

Since when the index has become a on-disk fast access structure?

Sure, one problem is that the index reading code is inherently written
for a single index state.

That's wrong, but because the index is not a on-disk fast access structure
to begin with, the incorrect statement about it is excused ;-)