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by jnewhouse 816 days ago
Yep, pretty much. Right now filesystem^ sources are finite, scanning the target path at operator startup time and processing all matching files. This processing is done by opening an asynchronous reader, courtesy of the object_store crate.

^We call these Filesystem Sources/Sinks to match terminology present in other streaming systems, but I'm not in love with it.