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laserbeamlast Wednesday at 10:42 AM0 repliesview on HN

> The header formats are meant to be very simple key/value pairs that are known by the parser, and not free-form bits of metadata. That's what the "meta" blocks are for.

One more thing you should prepare for whenever you have "free-form bits of metadata". They somehow turn into: "some user was storing 100MB blobs in there, and that broke our other thing".