Index types

Local Index Directory index types

In order to support the described retrieval use cases, LID maintains the following indexes:

multihash → []piece cid

To look up which pieces contain a block

piece cid → sector information {sector ID, offset, size}

To look up which sector a piece is in

piece cid → map<mulithash → block offset / size>

To look up where in the piece a block is and the block’s size