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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion docs/internals/split-format.md
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Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ Quickwit's index are divided into small independent immutable piece of index cal
For convenience, a split consists in a single file, with the extension `.split`.

In reality, this file hides an internal mini static filesystem,
with the tantivy index files.
with:
- the Tantivy index files (`.idx`, `.pos`, `.term`...)
- a Quickwit specific file with the list of fields, including those indexed as part of a JSON type.
It contains the field name, type and capabilities.

The split file data layout looks like this:
- concatenation all of the files in the split
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