alt Hacker NewsThat happens, in general. The benefit comes when it’s time to look up by uuid only; the prefix is an index to its disk block location.
That happens, in general. The benefit comes when it’s time to look up by uuid only; the prefix is an index to its disk block location.
> the prefix is an index to its disk block location
What? This is definitely not the case and can’t be because B-tree nodes change while UUIDs do not.