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240 repositories.)
* The IA is ~20 Petabytes large. Each shard would thus be around 8
Terabytes. (However, Items sizes will vary a lot, so there's the
Terabytes. (Item sizes will vary a lot, so there's the
potential to get a shard that's unusually small or large. This could be
dealt with when assigning Items to the shards, to balance sizes out.)
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Items sometimes go dark; this could be reflected by deleting the item
from the repository. It's up to the clients what they do with the content
of such Items.
## other potential gotchas
If any single Item is very large (eg, 10 terabytes), there may not be
any clients that can handle it. This could be dealt with by splitting up
the item into smaller files.