[blibble]

> if it's not in ram, you have to do an extra IO to look it up

as has been explained to you several times, you don't

> if you pollute the metadata cache with useless junk like this

the overhead is 0.0004% with 1 index entry per megabyte, and if that's too much that can be reduced by 10/100/1000/10000x that by changing the size

as we're clearly now going around in circles, I won't be responding again.

[jeffffff]

well i tried. i wish you the best of luck in your continued ignorance.

[blibble]

the irony