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by klauspost 1581 days ago
No, S3, as MinIO, has a read-after-write consistency.

So indexing would block on either writes or reads until it is done. We block when doing the zip indexing, but that is much more lightweight - and we limit to 100MB ZIP directory. That way we don't risk long-blocking index operations.

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I see. Indeed that is a potentially long time to block.