document the key format

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Joey Hess 2012-11-30 16:01:29 -04:00
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First there are two levels of directories used for hashing, to prevent
too many things ending up in any one directory.
Each subdirectory has the name of a key in one of the
Each subdirectory has the [[name_of_a_key|key_format]] in one of the
[[key-value_backends|backends]]. The file inside also has the name of the key.
This two-level structure is used because it allows the write bit to be removed
from the subdirectories as well as from the files. That prevents accidentially