From 936349aa81b948fc311b505f4d92a215ac8cdf23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Hess <joeyh@joeyh.name>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 19:20:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] clarify

---
 doc/design/iabackup.mdwn | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn b/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn
index 14888f7dc8..3c1e961028 100644
--- a/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn
+++ b/doc/design/iabackup.mdwn
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ To add an Item to the shard:
 
    The easy way is to write the tarball to disk in the shard's git repo,
    and "git annex add", but it's also possible to do this without ever
-   storing the tarball on disk.
+   storing the tarball on disk. (The tarball would then be reconstructed
+   on the fly each time a client requests to download it.)
 
 4. Update git-annex location tracking to indicate that this item
    is present in the Internet Archive.